Re: Dual Homed BGP

2020-01-24 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 1/23/20 6:01 PM, Brian wrote: Hello all. I am having a hard time trying to articulate why a Dual Home ISP should have full tables. My understanding has always been that full tables when dual homed allow much more control. Especially in helping to prevent Async routes. If you don't have

Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent

2018-05-16 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/15/2018 04:34 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:47:50PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> TL;DR = Don't use HTML email [snip] > > That's enough right there. HTML markup in email is used exclusively > by three kinds of people: (1) ignorant newbies who don't know

Re: Assigning /64 but using /127 (was Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2017-12-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 12/28/2017 11:39 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> On Dec 28, 2017, at 09:23 , Octavio Alvarez <octalna...@alvarezp.org> wrote: >> >> On 12/20/2017 12:23 PM, Mike wrote: >>> On 12/17/2017 08:31 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: >>> Call this the 'shavings', in IPv

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 12/20/2017 12:23 PM, Mike wrote: > On 12/17/2017 08:31 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Call this the 'shavings', in IPv4 for example, when you assign a P2P > link with a /30, you are using 2 and wasting 2 addresses. But in IPv6, > due to ping-pong and just so many technical manuals and other advices,

Re: Request for comment -- BCP38

2016-10-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 09/26/2016 08:47 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: >> If you have links from both ISP A and ISP B and decide to send traffic >> out ISP A's link sourced from addresses ISP B allocated to you, ISP A >> *should* drop that traffic on the floor. There is no automated or >> scalable way for ISP A to

Re: Use of unique local IPv6 addressing rfc4193

2016-09-09 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 09/08/2016 04:09 PM, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: > With NAT I have a single entry/exit point to those infrastructure subnets > which can be easily policed. I have used NAT in IPv4 scenarios as an alternative for lack of routing control in the return direction. However, this does not mean that this

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 07/01/2016 07:28 PM, Edgar Carver wrote: > Is there some kind of NAT-based IPv6 firewall I can setup on the router > that can help block viruses? You need layer-7 firewalls for this. NAT-based "firewalls" (pseudo-firewalls, really) are layer-4 only. Those will not help you block typical

Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute

2016-06-01 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/31/2016 09:52 AM, Hugo Slabbert wrote: >> I'm not sure if you mean that, if sent through C it should have the >> source addres of A, or that it should actually be sent through A >> regardless of the routing table (which sounds better to me). > > How is the latter better? What guarantees

Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute

2016-06-01 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/31/2016 11:22 AM, William Herrin wrote: >> I'm not sure if you mean that, if sent through C it should have the >> source addres of A, or that it should actually be sent through A >> regardless of the routing table (which sounds better to me). > > That doesn't make sense. There may be

Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute

2016-05-31 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/30/2016 10:03 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > rfc1812 says > >4.3.2.4 ICMP Message Source Address > >Except where this document specifies otherwise, the IP source address >in an ICMP message originated by the router MUST be one of the IP >addresses associated with the physical

Re: Thank you, Comcast.

2016-02-26 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 26/02/16 09:16, Brielle Bruns wrote: > Place the blame for local resolvers listening on WAN squarely where it > belongs - the router vendors who make these devices. As long as ISPs massively buy crappy hardware pieces, vendors will make them and sell them. That's how it works. Best regards.

Looking for docs on "A" RR duality of functions

2016-02-17 Thread Octavio Alvarez
Hi. Do you know if there are any docs (RFC, drafts, independent...) that study the tricks being done with the A/ RRs? What I mean is that it is currently being used not only to resolve the IP address of a hostname, but for load-balancing as well, the case being that the hostname is not just a

Re: Nat

2015-12-16 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 15/12/15 10:08, Ahmed Munaf wrote: > Dear All, > > We are using cisco for natting, we'd like to change it to another brand like > A10 or Citrix. If you are willing to rephrase it to "we are using Cisco IOS for NATting, we'd like to change it to another platform or brand", you may want to

Re: AW: Uptick in spam

2015-10-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 10/27/2015 05:09 AM, Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Octavio Alvarez <octalna...@alvarezp.org <mailto:octalna...@alvarezp.org>> wrote: On 26/10/15 11:38, Jürgen Jaritsch wrote: But it is originating all from different IP addresse

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-10-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 27/10/15 05:40, Jutta Zalud wrote: >>> But it is originating all from different IP addresses. Who knows if this >>> is an attack to get *@jdlabs.fr blocked from NANOG and is just getting >>> its goal accomplished. >> >> This is the part that's been bugging me. Doesn't the NANOG server >>

Re: AW: Uptick in spam

2015-10-26 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 26/10/15 11:38, Jürgen Jaritsch wrote: > Hi, > > I added this two lines to our postfix header checks: > > /mike@sentex\.net/ DISCARD > /jdenoy@jdlabs\.fr/ DISCARD > > Worked very well: > > # grep -i discard /var/log/mail.log | grep -iE "@jdlabs|@sentex" | wc -l > 408 But it is originating

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Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.

2015-09-09 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 09/09/15 06:36, Dovid Bender wrote: > I am trying to understand why the legal babble bothers anyone. Does > it give you a nervous twitch? Remind you why you hate legal? It's > just text at the bottom of your email. I've seen it in multiple languages (not necessarily on this list). Furthermore,

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with

2015-07-07 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 06/07/15 19:12, Joe Greco wrote: Terrible idea. These are the kind of features that should be opt in, and Microsoft could have done that instead. It *is* an option. Opt-in and opt-out are two models of having an option. Also I meant being opt-out for the network administrator regarding

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends

2015-07-06 Thread Octavio Alvarez
Terrible idea. These are the kind of features that should be opt in, and Microsoft could have done that instead. Does the 802.11 beacon support TLV data, like setting some opt-out flag without changing the SSID? (Even if the the flag name hasn't been yet agreed on?) Would this be a bad idea?

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/26/2015 08:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: I think opt-out of password recovery choices on a line-item basis is not a bad concept. For example, I’d want to opt out of recovery with account creation date. If anyone knows the date my gmail account was created, they most certainly aren’t me.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 14/04/15 06:26, Colin Johnston wrote: Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex Can you please cite the best practice document where this is stated? Thanks.

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/03/2015 12:18 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: Can we please get back to the original topic? Also interested in the original topic. So far we have had one interesting and useful suggestion that I've seen -- Paul S. mentioned SIR https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir Have I missed any other

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 10/12/14 18:41, Charles Mills wrote: In the US at least you have to authenticate with your Comcast credentials and not like a traditional open wifi where you can just make up an email and accept the terms of service. I also understand that it is a different IP than the subscriber. Based

Re: Tech Laptop with DB9

2014-11-10 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 10/11/14 12:53, Darden, Patrick wrote: Get a cheap usb--serial converter. Check amazon for trend usb rs-232 db9 serial converter, tu-s9. Then you can just use whatever laptop. I've seen some cheap RS-232 converters fail with some devices. I was last bitten by one that just refused to work

Re: large BCP38 compliance testing

2014-10-20 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/10/14 18:44, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:54 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: The *real* problem isn't the testing. It's the assumption that you can actually *do* anything useful with this data. Name-n-shame probably won't get us far - and the way the US works, if

Re: The Next Big Thing: Named-Data Networking

2014-09-05 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 05/09/14 07:16, Jay Ashworth wrote: How many Youtube subject tags will fit in *your* routers' TCAM? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/09/04/2156232/ucla-cisco-more-launch-consortium-to-replace-tcpip [ Can someone convince me this isn't the biggest troll in the history of the

Re: Multicast Internet Route table.

2014-09-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 09/02/2014 05:46 AM, John Kristoff wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 04:47:37 + S, Somasundaram (Somasundaram) somasundara...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: 1: Does all the ISP's provide Multicast Routing by default? No not all and even those that do often do not do so on the same gear, links

Re: BGPMON Alert Questions

2014-04-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 02/04/14 11:51, Joseph Jenkins wrote: So I setup BGPMON for my prefixes and got an alert about someone in Thailand announcing my prefix. Everything looks fine to me and I've checked a bunch of different Looking Glasses and everything announcing correctly. I am assuming I should be

Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica

2014-03-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 03/04/2014 05:28 AM, jim deleskie wrote: Why want to swing such a big hammer. Even blocking those 2 IP's will isolate your users, and fill your support queue's. When the malicious DNS services get shutdown you will still have your support queue's filled, anyway. Doing it now will let you

Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica

2014-03-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/03/14 10:33, Ian McDonald wrote: Until the average user's cpe is only permitted to use the resolvers one has provided as the provider (or otherwise decided are OK), this is going to be a game of whackamole. So long as there's an 'I have a clue' opt out, it appears to be the way forward

Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput

2014-02-10 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 02/10/2014 08:05 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: The ACL is a recent addition and we can probably do away with it. I didn't notice a significant increase in CPU or drops since adding it. But we usually peak at about 200Mbps on this link. The full routing table is a must since we're dual homed.

Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput

2014-02-10 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 02/10/2014 06:05 PM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: Are you suggesting getting the default gateway from both providers or getting the full table from one and using the default as a backup on the other (7206)? Whatever suits you best. Test and see. I'd just receive the full table anyway but filter

Re: Why won't providers source-filter attacks? Simple.

2014-02-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/02/14 11:35, Jay Ashworth wrote: It *is in their commercial best interest (read: maximizing shareholder value) *NOT* to filter out DOS, DDOS, and spam traffic until their hand is forced -- it's actually their fiduciary duty not to. That's short-sighted, but I agree in that that's what

Re: BCP38 is hard, was TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/02/14 14:18, John Levine wrote: I was at a conference with people from some Very Large ISPs. They told me that many of their large customers absolutely will not let them do BCP38 filtering. (If you don't want our business, we can find someone else who does.) The usual problem is that

Re: BCP38 is hard, was TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/02/14 15:24, John R. Levine wrote: If ISP has customer A with multiple *known* valid networks --doesn't matter if ISP allocated them to customer or not-- and ISP lets them all out, but filters everything else, ISP is still complying with BCP 38. Of course. The question is how the ISP

Re: BCP38 [Was: Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?]

2014-02-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/02/14 16:31, Livingood, Jason wrote: Can somebody explain to me why those who run eyeball networks are able to block outbound packets when the customer hasn't paid their bill, but can't seem to block packets that shouldn't be coming from that cablemodem? i suspect the non-payment case is

Re: Do network diagnostic tools need upgrade?

2014-02-03 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 02/03/2014 05:33 AM, Ammar Salih wrote: Hello NANOG list members, I have a question for you, are you happy with the current network diagnostic tools, like ping, trace route .. etc, What tools are you referring to by ...? There are many others. I like tcptraceroute (there are two variants

Re: Internet Society survey regarding Network Operator involvement with the IETF

2014-02-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 02/02/2014 07:52 AM, John Curran wrote: NANOGers - The folks at the Internet Society are looking for input into how network operators are (or are not) involved in IETF standards development. To that end, they've put together a short survey for network operators on this topic

Re: Policy-based routing is evil? Discuss.

2013-10-12 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 10/11/2013 10:27 AM, William Waites wrote: I'm having a discussion with a small network in a part of the world where bandwidth is scarce and multiple DSL lines are often used for upstream links. The topic is policy-based routing, which is being described as load balancing where end-user

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the update-downloading Bittorrent client for the phones. The clients (be it

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 09/23/2013 08:36 PM, Joe Greco wrote: That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the update-downloading Bittorrent client

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Octavio Alvarez
Again, as others have said: complain to the ISP that most probably oversubscribed their links. On 19/09/13 15:29, Warren Bailey wrote: Your software updates (you meaning a user of the Internet) should not affect my experience. I'm not advocating we go back to 5.25 floppies and never look

Re: Google's QUIC

2013-06-29 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:31:35 -0700, Jim Popovitch jim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Octavio Alvarez alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org wrote: I wish my Debian mirror would just be the mirror.debian.net *service* (not host), and the network could choose the best for me. Try

Re: Google's QUIC

2013-06-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:09:43 -0700, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/google-making-the-web-faster-with-protocol-that-reduces-round-trips/?comments=1 Sorry if this is a little more on the dev side, and less on the ops side but since

Re: Google's QUIC

2013-06-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:39:04 -0700, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Octavio Alvarez alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org wrote: Sounds like a UDP replacement. If this is true, then OS-level support will be needed. If they are on this, then it's

Re: Google's QUIC

2013-06-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:57:48 -0700, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: again... not a super smart on this stuff, but.. why does it require OS modifications? isn't this just going be 'chrome' (or 'other application') asking for a udp socket and spewing line-rate-foo out of that?

Re: Google's QUIC

2013-06-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:20:21 -0700, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: Runs in top of UDP... Is not UDP... If it has protocol set to 17 it is UDP. So QUIC is an algorithm instead of a protocol? SCTP is not NAT friendly (to the best of my knowledge), SHIM6 is IPv6-specific

Re: Please, talk me down.

2012-10-16 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:35:11 -0700, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten jos...@josephholsten.com wrote: I want to like IPv6. I do. But I'm seriously considering turning off IPv6 support from our servers. First off, I'm using djbdns internally and it doesn't support records. So we

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:45:55 -0700, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org 04:05:41PM + Quoting Dylan Bouterse (dy...@corp.power1.com): I'm not sure if this is obvious for this list or not, but with your WiFi

Re: VPN over satellite

2012-05-08 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:42:27 -0700, Rens r...@autempspourmoi.be wrote: Could anybody recommend any hardware that can build a VPN that works well over satellite connections? (TCP enhancements) I'd try splitting the solution into two devices: at the lower layer, the tunneling part, which can be

Re: shared address space... a reality!

2012-03-16 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:22:04 -0700, Christopher Morrow christopher.mor...@gmail.com wrote: NetRange: 100.64.0.0 - 100.127.255.255 CIDR: 100.64.0.0/10 OriginAS: NetName:SHARED-ADDRESS-SPACE-RFCTBD-IANA-RESERVED Weren't we supposed to *solve* the end-to-end

Re: facebook lost their A-record for www.facebook.com?

2012-03-06 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:43:07 -0800, Igor Ybema i...@ergens.org wrote: [igor@vds ~]$ host -t A www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com Using domain server: Name: ns1.facebook.com Address: 204.74.66.132#53 Aliases: www.facebook.com has no A record No, it's a subdomain with its A records in another

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-19 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:47:15 -0800, John Kristoff j...@cymru.com wrote: I have a handful of common misconceptions that I'd put on a top 10 list, but I'd like to solicit from this community what it considers to be the most annoying and common operational misconceptions future operators often

Re: Speed Test Results

2011-12-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:18:40 -0800, jacob miller mmzi...@yahoo.com wrote: Am having a debate on the results of speed tests sites. Am interested in knowing the thoughts of different individuals in regards to this. They are just a measurement, which need to be correctly used and interpreted

Re: IPv6 - a noobs prespective

2011-06-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:00:27 -0800, Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com wrote: I am however *terrified* of making that move. There is so many new phrases, words, things to think about etc You fears will significantly lower after you set up a separate lab and play with it. With something as simple

Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

2011-06-08 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:28:40 -0700, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote: It is really nice that folks where able to put records on their websites for only 24 hours, but they forgot to put in the glue on their nameservers. As such, for the folks testing IPv6-only, a lot of sites will fail

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-30 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:34:15 -0700, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Octavio Alvarez alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org said: So the first user in a router tunes to a multicast stream. Consumption for the ISP and all the routers in the chain to the source: same as if it were

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:48:51 -0700, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com And that's the snap answer, yes. But the *load*, while admittedly lessened over unicast, falls *mostly* to the carriers, who cannot anymore bill for it,