Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au On 4 Feb 2014, at 9:28 am, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: wait, so the whole of the thread is about stopping participants in the attack, and you're suggesting that removing/changing end-system

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/03/2014 05:10 PM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: NTP works best with a diverse set of peers. You know, outside your little bubble, or walled garden, or whatever people in this thread appear to be trying to build. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's definitely not the Internet. The

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 While I do not profess to know the cause of your particular NTP sync problem, this *might* be due to knee-jerk reactions to the NTP reflection/amplification DDoS attacks that have been quite an annoyance and operational issue lately. suspect that

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Jonathan Towne
The provider has kindly acknowledged that there is an issue, and are working on a resolution. Heads up, it may be more than just my region. -- Jonathan Towne On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 11:03:19PM -0500, Jonathan Towne scribbled: # This evening all of my servers lost NTP sync, stating that our

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread John Levine
In article 20140202163313.gf24...@hijacked.us you write: The provider has kindly acknowledged that there is an issue, and are working on a resolution. Heads up, it may be more than just my region. I'm a Time-Warner cable customer in the Syracuse region, and both of the NTP servers on my home LAN

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Cb B
On Feb 2, 2014 8:35 AM, Jonathan Towne jto...@slic.com wrote: The provider has kindly acknowledged that there is an issue, and are working on a resolution. Heads up, it may be more than just my region. And not just your provider, everyone is dealing with UDP amp attacks. These UDP based amp

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Cb B cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2014 8:35 AM, Jonathan Towne jto...@slic.com wrote: The provider has kindly acknowledged that there is an issue, and are working on a resolution. Heads up, it may be more than just my region. And not just your

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Cb B
On Feb 2, 2014 2:54 PM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Cb B cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2014 8:35 AM, Jonathan Towne jto...@slic.com wrote: The provider has kindly acknowledged that there is an issue, and are working on a

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread ryangard
Petachmpet...@netflight.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP? On Feb 2, 2014 2:54 PM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Cb B cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2014 8:35 AM, Jonathan Towne jto...@slic.com wrote

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, ryang...@gmail.com wrote: I'd hate to think that NetOps would be so heavy handed in blocking all of UDP, as this would essentially halt quite a bit of audio/video traffic. That being said, there's still quite the need for protocol improvement when making use of UDP, but

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Cb B
On Feb 2, 2014 7:41 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, ryang...@gmail.com wrote: I'd hate to think that NetOps would be so heavy handed in blocking all of UDP, as this would essentially halt quite a bit of audio/video traffic. That being said, there's still

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Geraint Jones
On 3/02/14 4:45 pm, Cb B cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2014 7:41 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, ryang...@gmail.com wrote: I'd hate to think that NetOps would be so heavy handed in blocking all of UDP, as this would essentially halt quite a bit of

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 3, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Geraint Jones gera...@koding.com wrote: We block all outbound UDP for our ~200,000 Users for this very reason Actually, you could've (and should've) been far more selective in what you filtered via ACLs, IMHO. What about your users who play online games like BF4?

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 3, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: I'm a big believer in using ACLs to intelligently preclude reflection/amplification abuse, but wholesale filtering of all UDP takes matters too far, IMHO. I also think that restricting your users by default to your own

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Michael DeMan
The recently publicized mechanism to leverage NTP servers for amplified DoS attacks is seriously effective. I had a friend who had a local ISP affected by this Thursday and also another case where just two asterisk servers saturated a 100mbps link to the point of unusability. Once more - this

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 3, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Michael DeMan na...@deman.com wrote: From a provider point of view, given the choices between contacting the end-users vs. mitigating the problem, if I were in TW position if I was unable to immediately contact the numerous downstream customers that were

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: b) enforce their AUPs (most broadband operators prohibit operating servers) by blocking *inbound* UDP/123 traffic towards their customers at the customer aggregation edge Actually, this can cause problems for ntpds

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Michael DeMan
On Feb 2, 2014, at 10:02 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Feb 3, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Michael DeMan na...@deman.com wrote: From a provider point of view, given the choices between contacting the end-users vs. mitigating the problem, if I were in TW position if I was

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Michael DeMan na...@deman.com wrote: I certainly would not want to provide as part the AUP (as seller or buyer), a policy that fundamentals like NTP are 'blocked' to customers. Seems like too much of a slippery slope for my taste. The idea is to block traffic

TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-01 Thread Jonathan Towne
This evening all of my servers lost NTP sync, stating that our on-site NTP servers hadn't synced in too long. Reference time noted by the local NTP servers: Fri, Jan 31 2014 19:11:29.725 Apparently since then, NTP has been unable to traverse the circuit. Our other provider is shuffling NTP

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