Re: BCOP appeals numbering scheme -- feedback requested

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
bits of information into the numbering system is a mistake. But then, I would. I think you look those sorts of things up (in the DNS, of course ;-) ) A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn asulli...@dyn.com

Re: BCOP appeals numbering scheme -- feedback requested

2015-03-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
numbered too) would be more useful. Then you could always refer to BCOP 1234 for Carrier Pigeon Operational Practices, and wouldn't need to update references and so on. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. email: asulli...@dyn.com voicemail: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Comcast residential DNS contact

2014-12-03 Thread Andrew Sullivan
in the event you asked that. Also, you probably want to look at RFC 4592, which considerably expands the treatment of wildcards in the DNS. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
is the obvious example here). So, now we have an encroaching monoculture, and no real option to do anything about it. Maybe this is just the way the Internet is, now. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
to the Linux world! But as I suggested, the network security implications of all that stuff hidden in one critical system sure seem to require some thinking. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-21 Thread Andrew Sullivan
are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 01:07:13PM -0400, John Orthoefer wrote: People don’t use in-addr.arpa anymore? ;) Hadn't you noticed how bad the reverse mapping maintenance is? A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Bare TLD resolutions

2014-09-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
the QTYPE is A, , or MX, and not everything else? Presumably you don't want to do negative caching? A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Bare TLD resolutions

2014-09-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
thing as what was being proposed, which is all I was commenting on. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
. It's worth keeping that in one's calculus. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage

2014-04-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
that there's any experience outside that realm, in my opinion, generalizing inappropriately. I think responsible Internet deployment ought to point that out. I'm sure there will be those who disagree. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
' reverse maps is probably an excellent way to attract ducks to nibble you to death. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: [iab-ch...@iab.org: Call for Review of draft-iab-filtering-considerations-06.txt, Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking and Filtering]

2014-02-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:17:27PM -0500, Jeffrey Haas wrote: It's IETF stuff. Operator sanity check would probably be appreciated. :-) Speaking as a member of the IAB but not for the IAB, I would certainly appreciate that review. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603

Re: GoDaddy DNS

2014-01-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
consumption. I have never observed this. Certainly, the wire format is not dotted-quad, of course. (None of this is to disagree that anything other than a 32 bit Internet address would be ill-formed RDATA for an A record.) A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

trivial changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
EDNS0 universally deployed in under 10 years. Right? A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: trivial changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
that firewall rules on TCP/53 are perfectly reasonable, even though DNS _always_ used TCP. People who believe there are going to be easy fixes to the issues coming from DNS are deluding themselves. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: trivial changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
... what other options are there to solve the larger problem […] If I knew, I'd run out an implement it rather than talk about it! A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: trivial changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
off DNS using UDP over IPv4 in your network and report back to us all on how that works out. You may not be able to do it by email, however. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: trivial changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
. You could also (and for most cases, I recommend you do) enable the Response Rate Limiting patches available on most of the open-source authoritative servers. Sorry I didn't think to mention it earlier. I thought everyone already knew that. But it does appear to help. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn

Re: ICANN related question...

2013-12-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Business Bureau. I've never seen them intervene in an individual domain name case. I have, but usually you can contact the registry before going to ICANN if you're having this problem. Registries will lean on the registrars to behave if there's a problem of this sort. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn

Re: NAT64 and matching identities

2013-11-19 Thread Andrew Sullivan
mechanisms are awful enough, it will encourage moving things to v6 for real so that we can get rid of the kludges. Perhaps this is wishful thinking, however. In any case, I'm sorry to have contributed in some little way to this headache of yours. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli

Re: DNS and nxdomain hijacking

2013-11-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 07:57:59PM -0500, Phil Bedard wrote: I think every major residential ISP in the US has been doing this for 5+ years now. Comcast doesn't, because it breaks DNSSEC. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
of forward names at the same IP address. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
is engaged in wishful thinking, particularly if the lookup isn't validated with DNSSEC. (But yes, that's waht the TCP wrappers package was supposed to be doing.) A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
to maintain the reverse; but it's a pretty important reason! Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
for matching reverse. As I've already suggested in this thread more than once, it is by no means an uncontroversial claim. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: comcast ipv6 PTR

2013-10-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
in the reverse tree is not supported by operational evidence. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: On topic of domains

2013-07-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: Domain names can be presented with a trailing dot.A fully qualified domain always contains at least one explicit dot. But not always at the end, which is why there's a problem. RFC1123, in my opinion, contains a remark

Re: On topic of domains

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
If the definition of FQDN in some RFCs (Informational or not) always included the trailing dot, I'd be inclined to agree with you. But that's not the case, so protocol slots have been established for FQDNs that are actually domains qualified relative to the root. Since this ambiguity has been

Re: .nyc - here we go...

2013-07-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: Makes me wonder if concern for routing table size is worrying about the right thing. Because obviously, the problems of scaling router memory and scaling DNS servers are the same kind? Yes, having many many new TLDs

Re: Need help in flushing DNS

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
I am not speaking officially, but the evidence so far is that this was not DNS poisoning, but domain name hijacking. My colleagues will have more to say later today. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:19 AM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Reaching out to DNS operators around the globe. Linkedin.com

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
in that are able to be terminated with a dot. Or at least that's how I read it when I looked it up the other day. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
it or you get what you deserve), or an actually fully-qualified domain name (final dot). The second of these is about to get harder to distinguish from the third, because of the new gTLD programme at ICANN. I wish there were a neat answer to the problem. There isn't. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
these things unambiguously. I have no idea how to solve that: the different terms have an established use, and fixing ambiguities in established use is a problem far beyond the bounds of networking. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
complication can always be solved by another layer of misdirection.) A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
to implement this stuff are confused, when the stnadards development organization in question can't figure out how the terminology works! A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?

2013-02-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
). Regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
of a barrier for a real attacker. A poor trade-off. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
design goal, and we are increasingly ditching it in favour of just using a CAPTCHA because they're what we think works. (Of course, this is really just a special case of the usual problems in HCI when security becomes an issue. We have this kind of problem with passwords too.) A -- Andrew

Re: carping about CARP

2012-11-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
cannot bother to publish an Internet-Draft describing CARP, it's pretty hard to take CARP seriously as anything like a protocol. It's just rude behaviour on someone else's well-defined port. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
tested, cause it works for everybody. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, and they need to be more responsible, I would like to know your company's stock symbol so I may bet against you. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

forward and reverse DNS (was: Please, talk me down.)

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:18:52PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: records are consistent. It is however good practice that these exist and are consistent. I will note that the IETF DNSOP WG was unable to agree even on that latter claim. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: DNS hostnames with a duplicate CNAME and A record - which should be removed?

2012-10-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
there. Should the CNAME just get nuked in all of these cases? Probably. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
in an experiment, came out in 1996. SRV was moved to the standards track in 2000. I've never heard an argument why it won't work, and we know that SRV records are sometimes in use. Why couldn't that mechanism be used more widely? Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
be an excellent time to start thinking about how to make usable all those nice features we already have in the DNS. Maybe by the time I die, we'll have a useful system! Best, Andrew living in constant, foolish, failed hope Sullivan -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: CLEC's in Ottawa area?

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
might be in use already.) Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
are getting used more often, why do you want to put your thumb on that scale? The other queries are presumably benefitting just as much from the caching. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
. If the problem is that there's some other record in there that might be queried again, but that doesn't get queried often enough to keep it alive, then the additional cost of the recursive lookup is just not that big a deal. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

the topic (was: raging bulls)

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:10:41AM -0500, Naslund, Steve wrote: We are getting a bit off the NANOG subject You think? A

Re: Netsol AAAA glue

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, absolutely, so if you have 10 years to go and you pay for a transfer you lose the additional year's payment. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Netsol AAAA glue

2012-07-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
for you, but it's not a requirement to use our service for this. (I'm delighted to hear that people say it's good.) Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

vulnerability and popularity (was: EBAY and AMAZON)

2012-06-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
). If you're right that the primary issue is the fundamental security of the target, then perhaps we will not see that pattern emerge. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Password safes c. (was: Dear Linkedin,)

2012-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
variable.) We have an engineering challenge here, and the PKI we have so far doesn't work. No, I have no magic answers. I'm not that smart. Michael Thomas is still right about this. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Password safes c. (was: Dear Linkedin,)

2012-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asulli...@dyn.com

Re: Wacky Weekend: The '.secure' gTLD

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
: ; DiG 9.7.3-P3 @NS15.IXWEBHOSTING.COM -t DNSKEY dot-secure.co +dnssec +norec +noall +comment ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27872 ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 Best, A -- Andrew

Re: SMTP addresses in

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:27:47AM -0600, Joe Greco wrote: That particular philosophy has done great wonders for e-mail and the spam problem, I completely agree. If it weren't for that philosophy, we wouldn't have an email problem at all. A -- Andrew Sullivan 204

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
registrar grace periods, which is a significant part of making tasting profitable. But I don't think the registrars would allow such a change. A -- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias CanadaToronto, Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
don't want inter-networking, then it will work fine. But if you want the benefits, you have to pay the cost of complying with the rules, even when you don't understand or care how they affect you or everybody else. Best regards, A Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street