hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Francis
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/22/1253201from=rss nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com - but if one US-controlled TLD can do it, hope

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Frisvold
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com - but if one US-controlled TLD can do it,

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jason Frisvold: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com - but if one

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Simon Vallet
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:52:42 -0400 Jason Frisvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not much up on DNSSEC, but don't you need to be using a resolver that recognizes DNSSEC in order for this to be useful? You do -- and last time I checked few native resolvers actually did : glibc doesn't, and I'd be

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Owen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Simon Vallet wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:52:42 -0400 Jason Frisvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not much up on DNSSEC, but don't you need to be using a resolver that recognizes DNSSEC in order for this to be

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Colin Alston
Florian Weimer wrote: * Jason Frisvold: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Colin Alston: Correct, you need a validating, security-aware stub resolver, or the ISP needs to validate the records for you. In public space like .com, don't you need some kind of central trustworthy CA? No, why would you? You need to trust the zone operator, and you need some

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Simon Vallet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:02:21 -0500 Chris Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chicken, meet egg. I think the point of the original post is that one end or the other has to start things. At least we have one US zone doing something on the server

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
Correct, you need a validating, security-aware stub resolver, or the ISP needs to validate the records for you. That would defeat the entire purpose of using DNSSEC. In order for DNSSEC to actually provide any improvement in security whatsoever, the ROOT ZONE (.) needs to be signed, and

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread marcus.sachs
DNSSEC is not a PKI. There are no CAs and no X.509 certificates. It's a chain of trust that can be validated using public/private key pairs. OK, that's oversimplification but you get the idea. While we wait for applications to become DNSSEC-aware, if your local DNS server can be trusted (a

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:52:42AM -0400, Jason Frisvold wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* marcus sachs: While we wait for applications to become DNSSEC-aware, Uhm, applications shouldn't be DNSSEC-aware. Down that road lies madness. What should an end user do when the browser tells him, Warning: Could not validate DNSSEC signature on www.example.com, signature has expired.

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:11:40AM -0400, Keith Medcalf wrote: Correct, you need a validating, security-aware stub resolver, or the ISP needs to validate the records for you. That would defeat the entire purpose of using DNSSEC. In order for DNSSEC to actually provide any improvement

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:24:00PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * marcus sachs: While we wait for applications to become DNSSEC-aware, Uhm, applications shouldn't be DNSSEC-aware. Down that road lies madness. What should an end user do when the browser tells him, Warning: Could not

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Michael Thomas
Jason Frisvold wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Chris Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chicken, meet egg. I think the point of the original post is that one end or the other has to start things. At least we have one US zone doing something on the server end of things. Oh,

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Goltz, Jim (NIH/CIT) [E]
nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com - but if one US-controlled TLD can do it, hope is buoyed for a .com rollout sooner rather than later (although

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
That would defeat the entire purpose of using DNSSEC. In order for DNSSEC to actually provide any improvement in security whatsoever, the ROOT ZONE (.) needs to be signed, and every delegation up the chain needs to be signed. And EVERY resolver (whether recursive or local on host) needs

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Keith Medcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If even one delegation is unsigned or even one resolver does not enforce DNSSEC, then, from an actual security perspective, you will be far worse off than you are now. Why? If the local resolver does not perform

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Wall
Emil, If you've actually shut off the RBN, you should have no problem finding some new transit to turn up, right? We're in a buyer's market, and there are dozens of vendors on-net at 200 Paul who'd love a piece of your business. Drive Slow, Paul Wall On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Emil

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
Just because YOU check the digital signature on an email and forward that email to me (either with or without the signature data), if I do not have the capability to verify the signature myself, I sure as hell am not going to trust your mere say-so that the signature is valid! If I

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Edward Lewis
At 15:30 + 9/22/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: data. We never finished the discussion on fail/open fail/closed wrt DNSSEC. And I'd bet a dollar we never will finish that discussion. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread bmanning
The end-stage is secure only if at that stage you also set all DNS infrastructure to refuse to talk to any DNS client/server/resolver that DOES NOT validate and enforce DNSSEC. Up until that point in time, there is NO CHANGE in the security posture from what we have today with no DNSSEC

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:06:57PM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote: At 15:30 + 9/22/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: data. We never finished the discussion on fail/open fail/closed wrt DNSSEC. And I'd bet a dollar we never will finish that discussion. --

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:14:53PM -0400, Keith Medcalf wrote: If I cannot authenticate the data myself, then it is simply untrusted and untrustworthy -- exactly the same as it is now. so I guess PGP web of trust is right out, then? [elided] If there is a piece of data X signed

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:42:33 -0400 From: Goltz, Jim (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com - but if one

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread David Conrad
On Sep 22, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm not much up on DNSSEC, but don't you need to be using a resolver that recognizes DNSSEC in order for this to be useful? Yes, and you also need the trust anchors for the zones you want to validate configured. Correct, you need a

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread David Conrad
On Sep 22, 2008, at 8:11 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: Correct, you need a validating, security-aware stub resolver, or the ISP needs to validate the records for you. That would defeat the entire purpose of using DNSSEC. In order for DNSSEC to actually provide any improvement in security

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:42:33 -0400 From: Goltz, Jim (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, they've also mandated IPv6 support on all backbones. Yes, and the goal, relatively insignificant that it was, was met. It was not a requirement that anyone actually

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Subject: RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:49:50 -0400 From: Keith Medcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I cannot authenticate the data myself, then it is simply untrusted and u= ntrustworthy -- exactly the same as it is now. Speak for yourself, John applies. In the real

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Lindley James R
To digress on IPv6 momentarily. The airline magazine engineering memorandum* from OMB left two terms undefined in the mandate; backbone network and IPv6 compatible. The Intra-agency IPv6 Federal Working Group wisely defined backbone network as (paraphrasing) the wire exiting the first

favourite XFP supplier?

2008-09-22 Thread Joe Abley
Hi all, Anybody have a preferred supplier for 10GE XFPs, multimode and singlemode? These are to be installed in Force10 and Juniper hardware in Toronto, so a Canadian supplier would be fabulous although I won't hold my breath. Joe

RE: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Tom Sparks (Applied Operations)
Just to add my $0.02 to this discussion and a disclaimer - I've known Emil for years, I've seen his shop and even the controversy. 200 Paul is a small community, and most of the folks in there know eachother, I've been in there since 2001 or so. Intercage is not a big shop, there are very few

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Drew Linsalata
On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) wrote: Intercage is not a big shop, there are very few people involved in running it I have no dog in this fight, but I would comment on the small shop issue as it relates to handling abuse complaints. I own a small

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) wrote: Basically is what it boils down to for me - its easy to blame an NSP/ISP/Hoster for what their clients do, it takes real dedication to find out whats *actually* going on. Tom, Atrivo is not just a spammer, and Intercage

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Tom Sparks (Applied Operations)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:48:16PM -0400, Drew Linsalata wrote: I have no dog in this fight, but I would comment on the small shop issue as it relates to handling abuse complaints. I own a small colo/hosting shop too. We don't have many employees. If we had to deal with so many abuse

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
So... apparently AS27595 is back on the air, with aspath's like: 6461 23342 27595 6539 23342 27595 8075 23342 27595 23342 == UnitedLayer, Tom isn't that you or is that another Tom I'm remembering? -Chris

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Tom Sparks (Applied Operations)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:17:42PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: So... apparently AS27595 is back on the air, with aspath's like: 6461 23342 27595 6539 23342 27595 8075 23342 27595 23342 == UnitedLayer, Tom isn't that you or is that another Tom I'm remembering? Yep, same Tom, I was

XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread Justin Sharp
We are seeing some issues w/ XO/Savvis peering.. Trace from XO to Savvis IP space (64.75.10.151) Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets

Re: favourite XFP supplier?

2008-09-22 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2008-09-22-15:01:35, Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have a preferred supplier for 10GE XFPs, multimode and singlemode? Fluxlight (www.fluxlightinc.com) is good source for 10GBASE-SR and LR XFPs. They tend to keep an inventory, often able to ship on the day of order; their web

Re: XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread mike newton
yeah, we noticed it as well. looks like they're back now. i noticed their routes drop off at about 14:16 PT and come back just after 14:30 PT. +m Justin Sharp wrote: We are seeing some issues w/ XO/Savvis peering.. Trace from XO to Savvis IP space (64.75.10.151) Keys: Help Display

Re: XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread Mike Lyon
Also seeing some issues with XO out here: Tracing route to yahoo.com [68.180.206.184] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.100.20.1 2 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms sjcisr01-int.wyse.com [10.100.1.15] 3 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 132.237.245.1 4 3 ms 3 ms

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:17:42PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: So... apparently AS27595 is back on the air, with aspath's like: 6461 23342 27595 6539 23342 27595 8075 23342 27595 23342 ==

Re: XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread Justin Sharp
Seems like Savvis/XO routes have been restored, albeit through an unusual Dallas route (usually takes an XO Los Angeles route).. 1. scrubbed 0.0% 2040.4 0.7 0.3 7.0 0.9 2.

Re: XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread Zaid Ali
I am seeing it on my end also: traceroute: Warning: www.cnn.com has multiple addresses; using 157.166.224.25 traceroute to www.cnn.com (157.166.224.25), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 hq-rtr1.genius.local (64.244.66.1) 0.891 ms 0.429 ms 0.449 ms 2

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Christopher Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also noticed AS paths like this: * 69.22.162.0/23 701 2914 32335 6461 23342 27595 i I'm not sure whats going on there,

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Tom Sparks (Applied Operations)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:50:58PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: actually, I think PIE sees this route from 6461 and passes it along probably because they didn't update the filters on their sessions when they dropped the links to 27595 :( Has anyone actually confirmed that the link is

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-22 Thread Justin Shore
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: There is no law or even custom stopping me from asking you to prove you are worthy to connect to my network. There may not be a law preventing you from asking him for proof of legitimate customers, but there is a law preventing him from answering you. Google for

YAY! Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Foo
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:46:54PM -0700, Emil Kacperski wrote: Hey James, That's the worst part in all this, so many been with me for years!? I just put my fate into companies I shouldn't have. Emil: Yes, they have been with you for years -- it's quite unfortunate, such great customers.

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: * marcus sachs: While we wait for applications to become DNSSEC-aware, Uhm, applications shouldn't be DNSSEC-aware. Down that road lies madness. What should an end user do when the browser tells him, Warning: Could not validate DNSSEC signature on

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
That does not stop me from asking. Also, I've never seen a viable, legit biz that didn't have at least a couple customers who were willing to let their name be used. -- TTFN, patrick iPhone 3-J (That's 3-Jezuz for the uninitiated.) On Sep 22, 2008, at 18:00, Justin Shore [EMAIL PROTECTED]

prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Weeks
I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack of 72.234.0.0/15 (and another of our prefixes) by ASN 8997 (OJSC North-West Telecom in Russia) in using ASN 3267 (Russian Federal University Network) to advertise our space to ASN 3277 (Regional University and Scientific Network (RUSNet)

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:35 CDT, Justin Shore said: There may not be a law preventing you from asking him for proof of legitimate customers, but there is a law preventing him from answering you. Google for CPNI and red flag. Hmm... I'm not sure how Yes, XYZ is a customer of mine qualifies

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Koch
I received a phas notification about this today as well... I couldn't find any relevant data confirming the announcement of one of my /19 blocks, until a few minutes ago when i checked the route views bgplay (ripe bgplay turns up nothing) and can now see 8997 announcing and quickly withdrawing my

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Weeks
--Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack snip - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- From: Christian Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] I couldn't find any relevant data confirming the announcement of

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Koch
about 09:30 UTC per rviews On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack snip - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 21:06, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack of 72.234.0.0/15 (and another of our prefixes) by ASN 8997 (OJSC North-West Telecom in Russia) in using ASN 3267 (Russian Federal University Network) to advertise our

Re: duplicate packet

2008-09-22 Thread John Jensen
She'd have to actually specify -b to ping a broadcast address, and if she did, she would only get replies back from the hosts on that subnet, not duplicate replies from the same IP. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Sebastian Abt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * chloe K wrote: When I ping the ip, I

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Justin Shore
Looking up some of my prefixes in PHAS and BGPPlay, I too see my prefixes being advertised by 8997 for a short time. It looks like it happened around 1222091563 according to PHAS. Was this a mistake or something else? Justin Christian Koch wrote: I received a phas notification about this

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: I too spotted this via PHAS for a large number of prefixes, but have not received alerts from IAR, Watchmy.Net nor does RIPE RIS show this hijack: http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/risearch.html I would have expected with so many RRC boxes that RIPE

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Christian Koch wrote: Strange that RIPE RIS search doesn't show it: http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/risearch.html but yet you say BGPlay does show it. -Hank I received a phas notification about this today as well... I couldn't find any relevant data confirming the

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Koch
At first glance this morning not seeing any data between the gain and lost alerts from phas and inability to find a route in any of the many collectors and route servers out there I had thought it was a possibly a fat finger mistake by 8997 or a false positive. After locating the data in

Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Koch
Bgplay on routeviews, not the ripe one :) Christian On 9/23/08, Hank Nussbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Christian Koch wrote: Strange that RIPE RIS search doesn't show it: http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/risearch.html but yet you say BGPlay does show it. -Hank