Re: Mikrotik BGP Question

2010-05-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* George Bonser: Well, I believe the original poster said that one of his colleagues swore that BGP multihoming wouldn't work unless both feeds terminated on the same router. I suppose said colleague has never heard of iBGP between two routers of the local AS. Those two routers should

Re: Mikrotik BGP Question

2010-05-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* George Bonser: Does this really work that well? Won't you still get loops or blackholes unless the eBGP routes on all border routers are identical? As opposed to what, injecting the entire BGP table into your igp? As opposed to just injecting defaults. Maybe there is a reason the legacy

Re: .mil dns problems?

2010-05-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Stephane Bortzmeyer: DoS attack, may be? Looks more like a routing issue. Looks like the .MIL operators put all their eggs into one basket. 8-(

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ken Gilmour: ISP1 is the default gateway, ISP2 is a backup provider but which is always active. Client comes in on ISP1's link, traffic goes back out on ISP1s link. Client comes in on ISP2's link (non default gateway) but for some reason, the packets seem to be going back out through the

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Rubens Kuhl: You need to put a filter on your interfaces that references a filter later on to not session track a flow.  I think you need to be running Junos-jsr[0] 10.0 or 10.1 to use this : The same goes for 9.x, just be sure to except traffic to the router (like BGP session) from the

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: your perfectly fine multihop BGP session could break when rerouting occurs. one of the many reasons that there are no perfectly fine multi-hop bgp sessions. Uhm, is there a way around them when building the iBGP mesh?

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Rubens Kuhl: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: * Randy Bush: your perfectly fine multihop BGP session could break when rerouting occurs. one of the many reasons that there are no perfectly fine multi-hop bgp sessions. Uhm, is there a way around

Re: Strange practices?

2010-06-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Dale Cornman: I had personally never heard of this and am curious if this is a common practice as well as if this would potentially create any problems by 2 Autonomous Systems both originating the same prefix. The 6to4 anycast gateway RFC practically mandates this, and it does work when

Re: Micro-allocation needed?

2010-06-22 Thread Florian Weimer
covering prefix was not announced. (Arguably, that's two failures.) -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

2010-07-01 Thread Florian Weimer
problems right now. This takedown approach might work for controllers of non-too-advanced malware, but you need something better for content which people actually want to access, and which is indexed by helpful search engines. 8-/ -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv

Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

2010-07-01 Thread Florian Weimer
. In this particular case, the copyright infringement seems to have targeted mainly content created in the U.S., so it's quite natural that the U.S. authorities take a particular interest in it. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: (cue weasel-words about those routers using ASICs for most forwarding, but doing multicast forwarding in software in 5.. 4.. 3..) There's also the question of IP options (or extension headers). 8-) -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
on commodity hardware will keep increasing. Eventually, you'll need special-purpose hardware only for a smallish portion at the top of the router market, or if you can't get the software with the required protocol support on other devices. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Dobbins: On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: There's also the question of IP options (or extension headers). 8-) I know that some modern hardware-based routers have the ability to either ignore options, or to drop option packets altogether. There might

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-09 Thread Florian Weimer
for over a year. They certainly have got infrastructure all over the globe. The Verizon is probably just a private peering agreement, and someone misinterpreted that (or deliberately misrepresented it). -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http

Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

2010-08-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:41 +0200, Florian Weimer said: What's the current consensus on exempting private network space from source address validation? Is it recommended? Discouraged? What you do on your internal networks and internal transit is your business. BCP38

Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

2010-08-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:46:49 +0200, Florian Weimer said: And that connection that's trying to use PMTU got established across the commodity internet, how, exactly? ;) ICMP fragmentation needed, but DF set messages carry the a addresses of intermediate routers which

Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

2010-08-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael J. Wise: On Aug 15, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: What's the current consensus on exempting private network space from source address validation? BCP38-land MUST *never* see RFC1918-space traffic. Ever. Unless you're using a border router as a NAT device, of course

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christopher Morrow: (you are asking your vendors to run full bit sweeps of each protocol in a regimented manner checking for all possible edge cases and properly handling them, right?) The real issue is that both spec and current practice say you need to drop the session as soon as you

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: imiho, researchers injecting data into the control plane are responsible to have tested it at least against major bgp speakers. Practically, this boils down to don't do that, which is certainly fine by me. To carry out such experiments responsibly, you have to conduct so much

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: a bgp regression suite would not have caught this as it was not a repeat. Eh, it was just another corrupt-and-propagate issue combined with the broken (but RFC-required) session reset policy on malformed updates.

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Claudio Jeker: I think you blame the wrong people. The vendor should make sure that their implementation does not violate the very basics of the BGP protocol. The curious thing here is that the peer that resets the session, as required by the spec, causes the actual damage (the session

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raymond Dijkxhoorn: Not sure if the link was posted allready ... http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080b4411f.shtml Cisco posts their advisories to the NANOG list. 'The vulnerability manifests itself when a BGP peer announces a prefix with a specific,

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: To carry out such experiments responsibly, you have to conduct so much testing beforehand that the live test on the actual Internet will not yield new insights (assuming you did your pre-experiment testing properly). you seem to assume the purpose of the test was to see if

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Florian Weimer
Mbps or higher plan from their provider. The interesting question is not so much bandwidth, but if the traffic counts against your monthly usage cap. For IPTV offered by your ISP, it won't. Likewise for Internet video platforms where your ISP has obtained an ad-sharing deal. -- Florian Weimer

Re: Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs

2010-10-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Wayne E. Bouchard: Okay, if we go down that road, that makes Starbucks, Borders, a number of restaurants, and any other place that offers publically accessible wifi (free or otherwise) an ISP. The funny thing is that you actually want to be recognized as an ISP if you have transit traffic

Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

2010-10-26 Thread Florian Weimer
operators will stop filtering at the /32 boundary. So this issue will likely go away pretty soon because you can use our initial assignment to gain the routing flexibility you need. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brandon Kim: Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS? You can outsource your DNS, but you better retain a server locally on your network, so that you suffer less from that particular shared toothbrush.

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-16 Thread Florian Weimer
Anyone else get spammed from someone at Afilias? Yes, I think you were Cc:ed on the message sent to me. I find it odd that this type of advertising works. I would expect actual victims to confuse it with extortion. (I have heard that you were under attack and suffered an outage. For a small

Re: Prefix 120.29.240.0/21

2010-11-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Saku Ytti: I think we really need community tool to test BGP implementations against known/past bugs and unknown (fuzzied) bugs. Testing is the easy part. Meeting all the requirements for getting the fix rolled out on the (relevant parts of the) Internet is impossible because many ISPs have

Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-11-30 Thread Florian Weimer
to raise prices on their customers. This way they don't. Level 3 could do some routing tomography and make sure that Comcast receives the traffic in the most inconvenient way. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100

Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?

2010-12-03 Thread Florian Weimer
a registrar arm since they spun off Network Solutions in 2002. I think Verisign DBMS acts as a registrar for ccTLDs. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
proper resource management for the forseeable future. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: Windows Encryption Software

2010-12-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brandon Kim: I know windows has bitlocker, but I don't know if that is available for Win2003? I believe EFS is available in Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server, too. Software-based solutions have the advantage that they are somewhat more testable and reviewable. If it's all in the disk, you

Re: .gov DNSSEC operational message

2010-12-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jay Ashworth: - Original Message - From: Matt Larson mlar...@verisign.com The new KSK will not be published in an authenticated manner outside DNS (e.g., on an SSL-protected web page). Rather, the intended mechanism for trusting the new KSK is via the signed root zone: DS records

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
-in. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
in Section 2.5.1. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Lockhart: On Thu Feb 03, 2011 at 01:11:35PM +, Florian Weimer wrote: Has RIPE charged a LIR for their independent resources yet? I don't think so. Therefore, comparisons with ARIN are a bit premature. Yes - we got charged in our 2011 invoice. Very interesting. Are you sure

Re: SmartNet Alternatives

2011-02-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ryan Finnesey: This is one of the reasons we are starting to look at Juniper for a new network build. It is my understanding we set software updates for life for free. My understanding is that it's free for customers who have a service contract in place. Most downloads are not

Re: Why does abuse handling take so long ?

2011-03-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alexander Maassen: In most cases the only thing the abuse@ contacts do as hoster, is relay the mail to the client but do not dare to do anything themself, even if you provide them with a shitload of logs, even if you call them and say that the attack from their source is still continueing,

Re: Why does abuse handling take so long ?

2011-03-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeff Wheeler: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Alexander Maassen outsi...@scarynet.org wrote: In most cases the only thing the abuse@ contacts do as hoster, is relay the mail to the client but do not dare to do anything themself, even if The RIPE IRR database contains a systemic means for

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Dobbins: A wider swathe of interested parties would know of their existence, and their existence would be officially confirmed, which would make them more valuable. This is at odds with what happens in other contexts. Disclosure devalues information. -- Florian Weimer

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Dobbins: On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Disclosure devalues information. I think this case is different, given the perception of the cert as a 'thing' to be bartered. Private keys have been traded openly for years. For instance, when your browser tells you

Re: Question about AS Origin changes

2011-03-25 Thread Florian Weimer
setup with the customer. Or this could be some sort of backup procedure (perhaps prompted by the instability of the BGP link). -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-29 Thread Florian Weimer
, should be second nature to them, but somehow I doubt that the FPKI (say) issues certificates for non-federal entities to help with ongoing FBI investigations. (Same for the German government agencies who actually managed to get Mozilla approval for their non-CN-checking CAs.) -- Florian Weimer

Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

2012-10-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Levine: Are there DNS caches that allow you to partition the cache for subtrees of DNS names? That is, you can say that all entries from say, in-addr.arpa, are limited to 20% of the cache. You can build something like that using forwarders and most DNS caches. But it won't result in

Internet-wide port scans

2012-10-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Are there somewhat reputable service providers for Internet-wide TCP port scans? What's the typical rate per TCP port? (I'm interested in rather obscure services whose identification may need additional probing, and this data is unlikely on file already.) A full scan needs just 0.5 TB of data

Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Job Snijders: In the meantime you could consider setting up an irrd[1], redirect queries to that instance instead of whois.ripe.net, and keep it kind of fresh by feeding it ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz on a daily basis. RIPE NCC strips all contact information from the bulk

Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?

2013-02-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andrew Sullivan: My impression is mostly that people are left feeling uncomfortable by a massive upgrade of this sort with so little communication about why and so on. That's a side effect of Juniper's notification policy. Perhaps someone should them take them by their word (Security

Re: Cloudflare is down

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Constantine A. Murenin: And how exactly do they expect end-users clearing the DNS cache? Do I call ATT, and ask them to clear their cache? Sure, and also tell them to clear their BGP cache (aka route flap dampening). 8-)

Re: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

2009-05-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Iljitsch van Beijnum: 30 60 isn't a good choice because that means that after 30.1 seconds a keepalive comes in and then after 60.0 seconds the session will expire while the second one would be there in 60.1 seconds. Wouldn't the underlying TCP retry sooner than that?

Re: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

2009-05-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Danny McPherson: On May 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Iljitsch van Beijnum: 30 60 isn't a good choice because that means that after 30.1 seconds a keepalive comes in and then after 60.0 seconds the session will expire while the second one would be there in 60.1 seconds

Re: DNS ed.gov translations

2009-05-29 Thread Florian Weimer
for diagnostics (one additional run with the +dnssec flag might be helpful, too). -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: glue record

2009-05-29 Thread Florian Weimer
dependency? That's why the address is in the additional section. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: glue record

2009-05-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Anton Zimm: I can not find the Glue Record. Where is the Glue Record? It's in the additional section. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread Florian Weimer
, essentially defrauding brand owners who are structurally unable to cope with this situation.) -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: questionable email filtering policies?

2009-07-24 Thread Florian Weimer
concerns. 8-P -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Florian Weimer
such changes. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Florian Weimer
standardized, not implemented, or both, constantly moving the goalposts. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Florian Weimer
and get a fresh stub resolver each time they are restarted. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Florian Weimer
with the other two to report? 0x20 has alleged interoperability issues. It's also not such a simple upgrade as it was initially thought, so the trade-off is rather poor for existing resolver code bases. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de

Re: dnscurve and DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Florian Weimer
). -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: atac.fr DNS problem

2009-08-17 Thread Florian Weimer
still can reproduce the issue. (Perhaps this topic is more suitable for the dns-operations mailing list, BTW.) -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Scott Morris: I'm trying really hard to find my paranoia hat, and just to relieve some boredom I read the entire bill to try to figure out where this was all coming from (2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any

Re: Any RIM / blackberry folks around ?

2009-09-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Tancsa: 220 as08.bis.na.blackberry.com ESMTP HELO marble.sentex.ca 250 as08.bis.na.blackberry.com MAIL From: postmas...@telus.com 451 #4.1.8 Domain of sender address postmas...@telus.com does not resolve This could just be an SPF failure. Try some sender address you control.

Re: Wireless STM-1 link

2009-09-10 Thread Florian Weimer
All the interfaces are forced to 1Gbps and full duplex. This takes the interface out of spec, IIRC. Try with auto-negotation enabled. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133

Re: Google Pagerank and Class-C Addresses

2009-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
is: Is there any proof that Google does differentiate between /24s, or even better is there any proof that this isn't the case? Good luck. Google doesn't disclose their algorithms. There doesn't appear to be any Google statement on this matter, either. -- Florian Weimerfwei

IPv6 peering between Internet2 and Hurricane Electric

2009-10-05 Thread Florian Weimer
It seems to be down, based on http://routerproxy.grnoc.iu.edu/internet2/ and trying to get a traceroute to he.net/2001:470:0:76::2 from the SEAT location. BGP seems to be up, though. Shouldn't this cause quite a few problems for Internet2 downstreams? (We received a report from an academic site

Re: IPv6 peering between Internet2 and Hurricane Electric

2009-10-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: It seems to be down, based on http://routerproxy.grnoc.iu.edu/internet2/ and trying to get a traceroute to he.net/2001:470:0:76::2 from the SEAT location. BGP seems to be up, though. I've been told that the looking glass needs some knowledge about Internet2's routing

Re: Interesting Point of view - Russian police and RIPE accused of aiding RBN

2009-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* a. harrowell: It ought to be superfluous to point out that the only effective action taken against RBN was by the Internet community in getting all their upstreams to null route them. As is blindingly obvious, SOCA would never have been granted a warrant by the Russians. Ugh, in reality,

Re: Unable to reach security.debian.org through an HurricaneElectric IPv6 pipe

2009-10-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Laurent CARON: I'm currently unable to reach security.debian.org (2001:8d8:2:1:6564:a62:0:2) through IPv6. donald:~# traceroute -M tcpconn -p 80 wieck.debian.org -n -6 traceroute to wieck.debian.org (2001:8d8:2:1:6564:a62:0:2), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets It helps if you mention your

Re: Unable to reach security.debian.org through an HurricaneElectric IPv6 pipe

2009-10-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Laurent CARON: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:52:07PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: It helps if you mention your own IP address. Using 2001:7a8:820:1::1 instead, I get this in the reverse direction (from wieck): My desktop's IP: 2001:7a8:820:1::31 I can ping it from both locations

Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS

2009-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
boxes didn't even have WAN links. Part of the problem is that operating systems come with TCP stacks and web servers which are not very robust, so it's pretty easy to create something which behaves spectacularly better under certain attacks. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
Since people need to *explicitly* choose using the OpenDNS servers, I can hardly see how anybody's wishes are foisted on these people. If you don't like the answers you get from this (free) service, you can of course choose to use a different service - for instance your ISP's name servers.

Re: Gig Throughput on IPSEC

2009-11-12 Thread Florian Weimer
be cheating. 8-) -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Ulevitch: On 11/11/09 12:48 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Since people need to *explicitly* choose using the OpenDNS servers, I can hardly see how anybody's wishes are foisted on these people. If you don't like the answers you get from this (free) service, you can of course choose

Re: Who has AS 1712?

2009-11-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeffrey Lyon: Looks like FR-RENATER-ENST is in the wrong: 1708-1728 Assigned by ARINwhois.arin.net (source: http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/ ) It could have been ERXed (or whatever the process is called for AS numbers). -- Florian Weimer

Re: Who has AS 1712?

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Weimer
. A good example in this area is 53.0.0.0/8, which has a rather interesting history. Another one is AS702. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721

Re: Who has AS 1712?

2009-11-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jared Mauch: The issue of zone signing is going to be interesting as some nation-states (ccTLD) have been known to speak-up about their issues with the signing of the zone. Which ones? In most cases, ccTLDs don't represent nation states, and vice versa. -- Florian Weimer

Re: Who has AS 1712?

2009-11-25 Thread Florian Weimer
is 23456, and not the AS23456 syntax encoded in multiple tools. *sigh* -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jorge Amodio: What needs to be done to have ISPs and other service providers stop tampering with DNS ? First, stop calling it NXDOMAIN rewriting. These guys are rewriting everything they want, so that they can respond to your search queries, or serve different ads to you. Then try to opt

Re: port scanning from spoofed addresses

2009-12-03 Thread Florian Weimer
appear to be uninterested in tracing or blocking them. Is this the new normal? One of my concerns is that if others are seeing probe attempts, they will see them from these addresses and of course, contact us. What's the distribution of the source addresses and source ports? -- Florian Weimer

Re: More ASN collissions

2009-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Rene Wilhelm: AS3745 is not a duplicate ASN assignment either. Like AS35868 the entry at whois.ripe.net is a user created object in the RIPE routing registry, not an assignment by RIPE NCC. How can you tell one from the other? Is the lack of an org: attribute reliable? -- Florian Weimer

Re: Botnets buying up IPv4 address space

2011-10-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christopher Morrow: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote:        I agree with Benson.        In fact, for this problem I find irrelevant that IPv4 is running out. They are just looking for good reputation IP nodes. isn't this a short-lived problem

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-29 Thread Florian Weimer
smaller networks per cable interfaces of CMTS. As far as I understan the IPv6 address architecture, if the network prefix is longer than /64, you're not running Unicast IPv6. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100

Re: 128.0.0.0/16 configured as martians in some routers

2011-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
in a blackhole, or will the entire announcement be suppressed? I suspect the latter, given what we see and what Chris Adams has reported. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
it? Oh yeah.. Because there's a CPE which acts as a mediator, or the host uses some dial-up-type protocol which takes care of the IGP interaction. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-04-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Vixie: this seems late, compared to the various commitments made to rpki in recent years. is anybody taking it seriously? The idea as such isn't new, this has been floating around for four years or more, including at least one Internet draft,

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-04-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeff Kell: And what about the millions of users unknowingly infected with something else ?? You have to start somewhere. I received a warning letter, and four or five very organizations had to cooperate in new ways to make this happen. This is certainly a welcome development, and

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-04-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alex Band: I don't know if we can get RPKI to deployment because RIPE and RIPE NCC have rather serious issues with it. On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be anything else which keeps RIRs relevant in the post-scarcity world, so we'll see what happens. Could you elaborate on what

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-04-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alex Band: At RIPE 63, six months ago, the RIPE NCC membership got a chance to vote on RPKI at the general meeting. The result was that the RIPE NCC has the green light to continue offering the Resource Certification service, including all BGP Origin Validation related functionality. But

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-04-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alex Band: All in all, for an RPKI-specific court order to be effective in taking a network offline, the RIR would have to tamper with the registry, inject false data and try to make sure it's not detected so nobody applies a local override. Please keep in mind that this is what's

Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

2012-05-28 Thread Florian Weimer
[Dnschanger substitute server operations] One thing is clear, Paul is able to tell a great story. PR for ISC is somewhat limited, it's often attributed to the FBI: | The effort, scheduled to begin this afternoon, is designed to let | those people know that their Internet connections will stop

Re: DNSChanger Prefixes are re-allocated and advertised ...

2012-08-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Barry Greene: FYI - Two prefixes from the DNS Changer/Rover Digital take down have been re-allocated. One of the prefixes - 85.255.112.0/20 - was advertised Friday morning. There is a blog post with some of the details here: Wow, that was fast. So the police order actually made sense and

Re: Kaminsky redux - libspf2 dns parsing bug

2008-10-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Suresh Ramasubramanian: For the mailops is not operational folks.. it involves parsing dns txt records, so .. well, please grit your teeth and read on, this gets interesting By the way, BIND 9 is supposed to throw away this type of malformed RDATA, so if you run BIND 9, this is only

Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage

2008-11-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Seth Mattinen: 4. Multihome. Or get upstream from someone who does, and who is small enough to be able to get additional upstream upon short notice. I know that this solution isn't always cost-effective. 8-/ (Multihoming alone isn't a solution because it's hard to figure out how independent

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Patrick W. Gilmore: 1. Neither Sprint nor Cogent have transit Both Sprint Cogent are transit-free networks. (Notice how I carefully avoided saying tier one?) Whether one or both _should_ have transit is not a fact, and therefore outside the scope of this e- mail, but that neither have

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:26:59 +0100, Florian Weimer said: * Patrick W. Gilmore: 3. Standard transit contracts do not guarantee full connectivity If this were true, why would end users (or, more generally, not significantly multi-homed networks) buy transit from

Re: Sprint / Cogent dispute over?

2008-11-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Vixie: if cogent signed a trial peering contract which required payment if sprint determined after three months that cogent did not qualify, then the court's open questions are was the contract valid (and thus, does cogent owe sprint money) and why isn't there some kind of common

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