Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-07 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:33 PM Stephen Satchell wrote: > OK, OK, so I will continue to rate-limit both, to reasonably high limits > on the order of 250/second. Absent a DoS, it allows network operators > to use these tools as they should. > > My logs show no harm except to attack traffic. > >

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-07 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 3/7/19 8:10 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: > So why not disable ICMP Echo and UDP traceroute, those kids using > network diagnostics don't need them. > > For clue constrained audience fear will always be the most compelling > argument. OK, OK, so I will continue to rate-limit both, to reasonably high

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-07 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 6:06 PM wrote: > Sure I get it it's a very valid and a noble point, > But what you're asking is let it break (yes potentially -it's just > probability until it happens) for 1000s of subs just so that one kiddo has a > working niche feature, I can already see what board

RE: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-07 Thread adamv0025
Hey Saku, > From: Saku Ytti > Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:29 PM > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:19 PM wrote: > > > From past experience my assumptions would be more along the lines of if > it's not mainstream there's a higher likelihood that it might trigger > exceptions > in code. > > My

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-07 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:19 PM wrote: > From past experience my assumptions would be more along the lines of if it's > not mainstream there's a higher likelihood that it might trigger exceptions > in code. My point is, let it break. Don't pre-emptively drop things that you don't know to be

RE: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-07 Thread adamv0025
> From: Saku Ytti > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:00 PM > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:54 PM wrote: > > > Let me play a devil's advocate here, the above statement begs a question > then, how do you know all that is harmful would you test for every possible > extension and hw/sw permutation? > >

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-06 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/Mar/19 08:38, Fernando Gont wrote: > > RFC4821 seems to signal that the IETF has given up in making ICMP-based > PMTUD work, and aims at a (mostly) ICMP-free PMTUD. As much as I hate to admit it, I think this is a more realistic approach. Mark.

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-06 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/Mar/19 08:29, Mark Andrews wrote: > Make a big enough stink and it will get fixed. People just don’t make enough > of > a stink. Use social media. None of the companies with broken firewalls > really > want their idiotic practices pointed out in public. Start doing so every time >

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 6/3/19 03:29, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> On 6 Mar 2019, at 3:37 pm, Fernando Gont wrote: >> >> On 6/3/19 01:09, Mark Andrews wrote: >>> >>> On 6 Mar 2019, at 1:30 pm, Fernando Gont wrote: On 3/3/19 18:04, Mark Andrews wrote: > There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 6 Mar 2019, at 3:37 pm, Fernando Gont wrote: > > On 6/3/19 01:09, Mark Andrews wrote: >> >> >>> On 6 Mar 2019, at 1:30 pm, Fernando Gont wrote: >>> >>> On 3/3/19 18:04, Mark Andrews wrote: There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB getting

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 6/3/19 01:09, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> On 6 Mar 2019, at 1:30 pm, Fernando Gont wrote: >> >> On 3/3/19 18:04, Mark Andrews wrote: >>> There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB >>> getting >>> back to the TCP servers. There are also IDIOTS that deploy load

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 6 Mar 2019, at 1:30 pm, Fernando Gont wrote: > > On 3/3/19 18:04, Mark Andrews wrote: >> There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB >> getting >> back to the TCP servers. There are also IDIOTS that deploy load balancers >> that >> DO NOT LOOK INSIDE ICMP

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 07:15 Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 08:04:12AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > ICMP is NOT optional. > > I've pointed folks at this for years: > > ICMP Packet Filtering v1.2 > http://www.cymru.com/Documents/icmp-messages.html > > ---rsk >

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 3/3/19 20:16, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> On 4 Mar 2019, at 9:33 am, Stephen Satchell wrote: >> >> On 3/3/19 1:04 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >>> There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB >>> getting >>> back to the TCP servers. >> >> For those of us who are in the

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 3/3/19 18:04, Mark Andrews wrote: > There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB > getting > back to the TCP servers. There are also IDIOTS that deploy load balancers > that > DO NOT LOOK INSIDE ICMP messages for redirecting ICMP messages to the correct > back

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 3/3/19 16:57, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On 2019-03-03 20:13, Mark Tinka wrote: >> >> >> On 3/Mar/19 18:05, Jeroen Massar wrote: >> >>> IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280. >>> >>> If you cannot transport it, then the transport (the tunnel in this case) >>> needs to handle the fragmentation of

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Saku Ytti
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:54 PM wrote: > Let me play a devil's advocate here, the above statement begs a question > then, how do you know all that is harmful would you test for every possible > extension and hw/sw permutation? > So there would be 3 sets (though lines might be blurred) known

RE: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread adamv0025
> From: NANOG On Behalf Of Saku Ytti > > Hey Rich, > > > I've pointed folks at this for years: > > ICMP Packet Filtering v1.2 > > http://www.cymru.com/Documents/icmp-messages.html > > > To me, the correct pattern is here is to deny things you know to be harmful > and can

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Saku Ytti
Hey Rich, > I've pointed folks at this for years: > ICMP Packet Filtering v1.2 > http://www.cymru.com/Documents/icmp-messages.html To me this seems anti-pattern. It seems it was written on basis of 'what we know we allow, what we don't know we deny'. With assumption that ICMP

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-05 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 08:04:12AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > ICMP is NOT optional. I've pointed folks at this for years: ICMP Packet Filtering v1.2 http://www.cymru.com/Documents/icmp-messages.html ---rsk

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-04 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2019-03-03 20:13, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 3/Mar/19 18:05, Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280. >> >> If you cannot transport it, then the transport (the tunnel in this case) >> needs to handle the fragmentation of packets of 1280 down to whatever does >> fit in

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-04 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2019-03-03 11:31, Mark Tinka wrote: [..] > Across the 6-in-4 tunnel, the tested MTU is 1,232 for IPv6. IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280. If you cannot transport it, then the transport (the tunnel in this case) needs to handle the fragmentation of packets of 1280 down to whatever does fit

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-04 Thread Saku Ytti
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:02 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > Can we make a short rule that says: For ICMP, *ALLOW* *ALL* unless you do > > have a very specific and motivated reason to block some types. > > I would even go as far as "allow all icmp from any to any" (and if possible > > as the first

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-04 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/Mar/19 09:12, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote: > Can we make a short rule that says: For ICMP, *ALLOW* *ALL* unless you do > have a very specific and motivated reason to block some types. > I would even go as far as "allow all icmp from any to any" (and if possible > as the first firewall

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/Mar/19 03:17, Harald Koch wrote: > > (Can I join the choir too? :) But of course :-)... Mark.

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Radu-Adrian Feurdean
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, at 22:05, Mark Andrews wrote: > admins who don’t know how IP is supposed to work. You do realise that in "corporate world" that's more than 80% of network admins ? Some of them even make it to "audit" companies, so they can screw a company with clueful admins with their

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Harald Koch
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, at 17:35, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > Yes, some admins don't have fine-enough grain tools to block or throttle > specific types of ICMP, but that's the fault of the vendors, not the admins. We call these tunable parameters "nerd knobs". I used to create those knobs for

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 4 Mar 2019, at 9:33 am, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > On 3/3/19 1:04 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB >> getting >> back to the TCP servers. > > For those of us who are in the dark, "PTB" appears to refer to "Packet > Too

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 3/3/19 1:04 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB > getting > back to the TCP servers. For those of us who are in the dark, "PTB" appears to refer to "Packet Too Big" responses in ICMPv6. Yes, some admins don't have fine-enough

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/Mar/19 23:04, Mark Andrews wrote: > There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB > getting > back to the TCP servers. There are also IDIOTS that deploy load balancers > that > DO NOT LOOK INSIDE ICMP messages for redirecting ICMP messages to the correct >

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Andrews
There are lots of IDIOTS out there that BLOCK ALL ICMP. That blocks PTB getting back to the TCP servers. There are also IDIOTS that deploy load balancers that DO NOT LOOK INSIDE ICMP messages for redirecting ICMP messages to the correct back end. There are also IDOITS that rate limit PTB

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/Mar/19 21:57, Jeroen Massar wrote: > The transport (tunnel) CAN support that kind of fragmentation. > > (e.g. the tunnel could chop up a 1280 byte packet into two packets and the > remote then join them together; that is a "ethernet" level thing). If you have a working example between a

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/Mar/19 18:05, Jeroen Massar wrote: > IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280. > > If you cannot transport it, then the transport (the tunnel in this case) > needs to handle the fragmentation of packets of 1280 down to whatever does > fit in the tunnel. As you know, IPv6 does not support

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Tinka
Hi all. Just an update on this... it did turn out to be an MTU issue which I've been working on since last year, November. The trick was finding the right combination of settings between my Mikrotik home router and one of our Cisco ASR1006 edge routers in my backbone that terminates the 6-in-4

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-13 Thread Bjørn Mork
John Von Essen writes: > I recently go a Linksys home wifi router, by default it enables ipv6 > on the LAN. If there is no native IPv6 on the WAN side (which is my > case since FiOS doesnt do v6 yet) the Linksys defaults to a v6 tunnel. Could this be a 6RD tunnel requested by your ISP using

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-13 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/Nov/18 20:34, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >   > > Are you doing TCP MSS adjust/clamping? If you don't, try that and see > if it helps. This might be a PMTUD issue. > > Otherwise if possible, try lowering the MTU sent in RA to the one you > have on your tunnel (this depends on if this is

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Mark Andrews
Which just shows content providers and tunnel end point problems. * load balancers that don’t properly handle ICMP{v6} * stupid firewalls that block PTB * tunnel end points that don’t generate PTB for EVERY oversize packet (you wouldn’t drop TCP ACKS and PTBs are just as important) PMTD

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread John Von Essen
I recently go a Linksys home wifi router, by default it enables ipv6 on the LAN. If there is no native IPv6 on the WAN side (which is my case since FiOS doesnt do v6 yet) the Linksys defaults to a v6 tunnel. For the first few weeks of using the router, I had no idea alot of my traffic was

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Morgan A. Miskell
Not to beat a dead horse, but could the problem be so simple? I have tons of dual-stacked machines that have updated forever without issue, so I assume they update via IPV4. That being said, I've not packet sniffed any of the update stuff in a while but if the DNS is any indication then

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Mark Tinka wrote: I do run 6-in-4 from my backbone to my house as my FTTH provider does not do IPv6. I can't imagine this to specifically be the issue, as all other IPv6 traffic is fine, but at this point, I'm open to suggestion. Are you doing TCP MSS adjust/clamping? If

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/Nov/18 18:18, Clinton Work wrote: > I saw this issue randomly on Windows PCs due to IPV6 TCP checksum > offloading.    > > Try the following on the problem Windows machine: > - Open the Device Manager -> Network Adapters -> Network Interface > (Ethernet NIC): > - Under the Network Adapter

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/Nov/18 20:35, Jared Mauch wrote: > Let me know if you see anything related to Akamai. Will do. > Looking at these threads I don’t see anything really obvious and some are > much older posts. Agreed - but those posts were never really solved, and the issue description and behaviour

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/Nov/18 18:51, Lavanauts wrote: > I’m on native IPv6 via Spectrum and have no problems with Windows > Updates.  Could this be a tunneling issue? I do run 6-in-4 from my backbone to my house as my FTTH provider does not do IPv6. I can't imagine this to specifically be the issue, as all

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-12 Thread Clinton Work
I saw this issue randomly on Windows PCs due to IPV6 TCP checksum offloading. Try the following on the problem Windows machine: - Open the Device Manager -> Network Adapters -> Network Interface (Ethernet NIC):- Under the Network Adapter -> Advanced Tab, disable these options if present:TCP

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Nov 11, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 11/Nov/18 14:02, Chris Knipe wrote: > >> Also no problems here with IPv6 and Windows Updates... > > The issue is affecting (and has affected) quite a few folk: > >

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Willy MANGA
Hi, Le 11/11/2018 à 13:00, nanog-requ...@nanog.org a écrit : > [...] > Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:29:43 +0200 > From: Mark Tinka > Hi all. > Anyone ever figured out why Windows updates fail when the computer has > an IPv6 connection? Weird .. We have PC running Windows 10 pro (20+) in my

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Lavanauts
I’m on native IPv6 via Spectrum and have no problems with Windows Updates. Could this be a tunneling issue? Tony > On Nov 10, 2018, at 23:29, Mark Tinka wrote: > > Hi all. > > Anyone ever figured out why Windows updates fail when the computer has an > IPv6 connection? > > Google has

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/Nov/18 14:02, Chris Knipe wrote: > Also no problems here with IPv6 and Windows Updates... The issue is affecting (and has affected) quite a few folk:

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Chris Knipe
Also no problems here with IPv6 and Windows Updates... On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 1:42 PM Daniel Corbe wrote: > at 4:29 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > Anyone ever figured out why Windows updates fail when the computer has > an > > IPv6 connection? > > > > Google has tickets and

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Daniel Corbe
at 4:29 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: Hi all. Anyone ever figured out why Windows updates fail when the computer has an IPv6 connection? Google has tickets and tickets of this to and outside of Microsoft since 2013, with no real solution or answer as to what the problem actually is. In

WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

2018-11-11 Thread Mark Tinka
Hi all. Anyone ever figured out why Windows updates fail when the computer has an IPv6 connection? Google has tickets and tickets of this to and outside of Microsoft since 2013, with no real solution or answer as to what the problem actually is. In essence, many of the solutions out there point