Re: Strange practices?

2010-06-08 Thread Andy Davidson
Hi, On 7 Jun 2010, at 23:02, Joel M Snyder joel.sny...@opus1.com wrote: On 6/7/10 11:51 PM: Has anyone ever heard of a multi-homed enterprise not running bgp with either of 2 providers, but instead, each provider statically routes a block to their common customer and also each originates

BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Andy B.
Hi, This morning there was an ethernet loop problem on DECIX, causing many BGP sessions to flap throughout the entire platform. While this can happen, I am myself facing with BGP convergence problems on our DECIX router (SUP720-3BXL with IOS SXI3). De DECIX loop has been solved two hours ago,

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Andy This morning there was an ethernet loop problem on DECIX, causing many BGP sessions to flap throughout the entire platform. While this can happen, I am myself facing with BGP convergence problems on our DECIX router (SUP720-3BXL with IOS SXI3). De DECIX loop has been solved two hours

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Andy B.
I finally decided to shut down all peerings and brought them back one by one. Everything is stable again, but I don't like the way I had to deal with it since it will most likely happen again when DECIX or an other IX we're at is having issues. I've seen a few BGP convergence discussions on

APNIC 30 - Call for Papers

2010-06-08 Thread Jonny Martin
[Apologies for duplicates] APNIC 30 - Call for Papers The APNIC 30 Program Committee is now seeking presentations for APNIC 30 to be held at Gold

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Andy B. wrote: I finally decided to shut down all peerings and brought them back one by one. Everything is stable again, but I don't like the way I had to deal with it since it will most likely happen again when DECIX or an other IX we're at is having issues.

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Andy B. globic...@gmail.com wrote: I finally decided to shut down all peerings and brought them back one by one. Everything is stable again, but I don't like the way I had to deal with it since it will most likely happen again when DECIX or an other IX we're at

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:22:04PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: The Cisco 7600 and 6500 platforms are getting fairly old and have underpowered cpus these days. Starting in SXH the control plane did not scale quite as well as in SXF. This got better in SXI, but is not back on par with SXF

Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread J. Oquendo
From the NetSec mailing list... At http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7144856.ece June 6, 2010 Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers Michael Smith and Peter Warren NATO is considering the use of military force against enemies who launch cyber attacks on its member

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread J. Oquendo
Jorge Amodio wrote: So NANOGer's, what will be the game plan when something like this happens, will you be joining NATO and pulling fiber. I wonder when all types of warm-fuzzy filtering will be drafted into networking: Thou shall re-read RFC4953 lest you want Predator strikes on your NAP

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Dave Rand
[In the message entitled Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers on Jun 8, 16:03, J. Oquendo writes:] All humor aside, I'm curious to know what can anyone truly do at the end of the day if say a botnet was used to instigate a situation. Surely someone would have to say something to

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Jorge Amodio
None of this needs to be done for free. There needs to be a security fee charged _all_ customers, which would fund the abuse desk. With more than 100,000,000 compromised computers out there, it's really time for us to step up to the plate, and make this happen. Or you should send the bill

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread J. Oquendo
Brielle Bruns wrote: Problem is, there's no financial penalties for providers who ignore abuse coming from their network. DNSbl lists work only because after a while, providers can't ignore their customer complaints and exodus when they dig deep into the bottom line. We've got several

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 6/8/2010 15:44, J. Oquendo wrote: Brielle Bruns wrote: Problem is, there's no financial penalties for providers who ignore abuse coming from their network. DNSbl lists work only because after a while, providers can't ignore their customer complaints and exodus when they dig deep into the

RE: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Boone
So let's say a cyber-attack originates from Chinese script kiddie. Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 6/8/10 3:08 PM, Peter Boone wrote: So let's say a cyber-attack originates from Chinese script kiddie. Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2010-06-08 13:03, J. Oquendo wrote: Jorge Amodio wrote: All humor aside, I'm curious to know what can anyone truly do at the end of the day if say a botnet was used to instigate a situation. Surely someone would have to say something to the tune of better now than never to implement BCP

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jun 8, 2010, at 5:15 13PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 6/8/10 3:08 PM, Peter Boone wrote: So let's say a cyber-attack originates from Chinese script kiddie. Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Brielle Bruns br...@2mbit.com wrote: On 6/8/10 2:12 PM, Dave Rand wrote: It's really way, way past time for us to actually deal with compromised computers on our networks. Abuse desks need to have the power to

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Randy Bush
The Cisco 7600 and 6500 platforms are getting fairly old and have underpowered cpus these days. the hamsters in them were never well fed, ever. though i have never run one, too yucchhy, i have measured receiving a research feed from one. over ten minutes for a full table while a router takes

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On 6/8/10 10:07 PM, J. Oquendo wrote: So NANOGer's, what will be the game plan when something like this happens, will you be joining NATO and pulling fiber. I wonder when all types of warm-fuzzy filtering will be drafted into networking: Thou shall re-read RFC4953 lest you want Predator strikes

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On 6/9/10 12:50 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: What any of this has to do with configuring routers escapes me. I think Jay is worried about steps operators may have to take during such an eventuality of an attack, not to mention the collateral damage to the Internet infrastructure if DDoS is

RE: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Jim Templin
Have no fear geolocation is here, you are not in peril. It will be a surgical strike. If Google and others are willing to assist, they will know exactly where to send the JDAM. Chrome now collects data from your wireless card if you let it. When you are asked where you are, Chrome then also

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread jim deleskie
Military reply doesn't have to mean bombs and guns. There is nothing keeping it form mean offensive cyber counter attacks. This would mean manage the battlefields :) On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: On 6/9/10 12:50 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: What any of

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Jorge Amodio
So let's say a cyber-attack originates from Chinese script kiddie. Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Dave Rand
[In the message entitled Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers on Jun 8, 14:30, Brielle Bruns writes:] Legit customers get caught in the cross-fire, and they suffer - but at the same time, those legit customers are the only ones that will be able to force a change on said

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Perhaps a government operated black-hole list, run by same friendly folks that run the no-fly list, with a law that says no US ISP can send packets to or accept packets from any IP on the list. Now that would be some real fun to watch! :) On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Dave Rand d...@bungi.com

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Welch, Bryan
Changes the meaning of guns a blazing Bryan On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:31 PM, jim deleskie deles...@gmail.com wrote: Military reply doesn't have to mean bombs and guns. There is nothing keeping it form mean offensive cyber counter attacks. This would mean manage the battlefields :) On Tue,

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Dorn Hetzel dhet...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps a government operated black-hole list, run by same friendly folks that run the no-fly list, with a law that says no US ISP can send packets to or accept packets from any

Team Cymru BOGON feed over IPv6

2010-06-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
off and on list feedback welcome. I'd personally like to get an idea of how many people are: 1) using the new Team Cymru BOGON lists *via BGP* 2) use the new v4 list 3) use the v6 list 4) monitor the Cymru BGP session as diligently as they would a peer/provider session 5) attempted the BOGON

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:23:17 CDT, Jorge Amodio said: So let's say a cyber-attack originates from Chinese script kiddie. Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,

RE: Team Cymru BOGON feed over IPv6

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Stewart
We're using it...;) Please see inline... Paul 1) using the new Team Cymru BOGON lists *via BGP* Yes 2) use the new v4 list Yes 3) use the v6 list Yes 4) monitor the Cymru BGP session as diligently as they would a peer/provider session Spot check it - in the several years we've used the

RE: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Aaron Wendel
Actually I was thinking of my neighbor's noisy dog and what a predator strike to his house would do. :) -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:32 PM To: Jorge Amodio Cc: na...@merit.edu Subject: Re: Nato warns of

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Niels Bakker
* globic...@gmail.com (Andy B.) [Tue 08 Jun 2010, 16:28 CEST]: I finally decided to shut down all peerings and brought them back one by one. Sadly that's often the way it has to be done, modulo mild tweaks. Everything is stable again, but I don't like the way I had to deal with it since it

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Owen DeLong
Dave, I realize your fond of punishing all of us to subsidize the ignorant, but I would rather see those with compromised machines pay the bill for letting their machines get compromised than have to subsidize their ignorant or worse behavior. Owen Sent from my iPad On Jun 8, 2010, at 1:12

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Larry Sheldon
Lots of finger pointing. Lots of discussion about who should pay, and so forth. How about we just take responsibility for our own part. Don't malicious traffic in or out.? If it can't move, it will die. -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Dave Rand
[In the message entitled Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers on Jun 8, 13:33, Owen DeLong writes:] I realize your fond of punishing all of us to subsidize the ignorant, = but I would rather see those with compromised machines pay the bill for = letting their machines get

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Jorge Amodio
Sent from my iToilet why you will penalize with fees the end customer that may not know that her system has been compromised because what she pays to Joe Antivirus/Security/Firewall/Crapware is not effective against Billy the nerd insecure code programmer ? No doubt ISPs can do something, but

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:01:35 CDT, Jorge Amodio said: On the other hand think as the Internet being a vast ocean where the bad guys keep dumping garbage, you can't control or filter the currents that are constantly changing and you neither can inspect every water molecule, then what do you do

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread JC Dill
Jorge Amodio wrote: None of this needs to be done for free. There needs to be a security fee charged _all_ customers, which would fund the abuse desk. With more than 100,000,000 compromised computers out there, it's really time for us to step up to the plate, and make this happen.

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, JC Dill jcdill.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still truly amazed that no one has sic'd a lawyer on Microsoft for creating an attractive nuisance - an operating system that is too easily hacked and used to attack

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread JC Dill
Dave Rand wrote: I'm fond of getting the issues addressed by getting the ISPs to be involved with the problem. If that means users get charged clean up fees instead of a security fee, that's fine. I urge all my competitors to do that. The problem isn't that this is a bad idea, the problem

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, JC Dill jcdill.li...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Rand wrote: I'm fond of getting the issues addressed by getting the ISPs to be involved with the problem. If that means users get charged clean up fees instead of a

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Steven Bellovin
Problem is there's no financial liability for producing massively exploitable software. No financial penalty for operating a compromised system. No penalty for ignoring abuse complaints. Etc. Imagine how fast things would change in Redmond if Micr0$0ft had to pay the cleanup costs for

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 6/8/2010 23:22, Paul Ferguson wrote: Again, you can all continue to dance around and ignore the problem chance the probability that the U.S. Government will step in and force you to do it. Pick your poison. Or the world government will (note misspelled NATO in the Subject:). --

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 9, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: Problem is there's no financial liability for producing massively exploitable software. No financial penalty for operating a compromised system. No penalty for ignoring abuse complaints. Etc. Imagine how fast things would change in

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Dave Rand
[In the message entitled Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers on Jun 9, 0:26, Steven Bellovin writes:] A liability scheme, with penalties on users and vendors, is certainly = worth considering. Such a scheme would also have side-effects -- think = of the effect on open source

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: But it is not -just- market share. There are a lot more Windows Mobile compromises, viruses, etc., than iOS, Symbian, and RIM. I think combined. Yet Windows Mobile has

Re: Strange practices?

2010-06-08 Thread Jen Linkova
Hi, On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Dale Cornman bstym...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone ever heard of a multi-homed enterprise not running bgp with either of 2 providers, but instead, each provider statically routes a block to their common customer and also each originates this block in BGP?  

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Mark
On 09-Jun-2010, at 12:36 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jun 9, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: Problem is there's no financial liability for producing massively exploitable software. No financial penalty for operating a compromised system. No penalty for ignoring abuse

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 15:07 08/06/2010 -0400, J. Oquendo wrote: At http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7144856.ece A report by Albright¹s group said that a cyber attack on the critical infrastructure of a Nato country could equate to an armed attack, justifying retaliation. Eneken Tikk, a

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Owen DeLong
I'm all for that, but, point is that people who fail to meet that standard are currently getting a free ride. IMHO, they should pay and they should have the recourse of being (at least partially) reimbursed by their at-fault software vendors for contributory negligence. Owen On Jun 8, 2010, at

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Sent from my iToilet why you will penalize with fees the end customer that may not know that her system has been compromised because what she pays to Joe Antivirus/Security/Firewall/Crapware is not effective against Billy the nerd insecure

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:06 PM, JC Dill wrote: Dave Rand wrote: I'm fond of getting the issues addressed by getting the ISPs to be involved with the problem. If that means users get charged clean up fees instead of a security fee, that's fine. I urge all my competitors to do that. The

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Please, be for real -- the criminals go after the entrenched majority. If it were any other OS, the story would be the same. If this were true, the criminals would be all over

Re: [Nanog-futures] Transition update

2010-06-08 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: Within less than 36 hours, you've gone from being tired of people coming back months later (as if it had all been over and done a long time ago) to It's been a very a small number of weeks (give them more time). This is total nonsense. The

Re: [Nanog-futures] Transition update

2010-06-08 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 4, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: But I'll comment that from my outsider's view back here in the cheap seats, what has happened is indistinguishable from a coup. There is the lack of information about what really happened; there is the nebulous citation of alleged problems whose

Re: [Nanog-futures] Transition update

2010-06-08 Thread Randy Bush
Having served my maximum 4 years on the PC, I would characterize my own experience with interaction between the respective parties SC PC and merit as congruent with that of Dan's. I would observe that over my now 13 year involvement with nanog that the community revolt that produced the

Re: [Nanog-futures] Transition update

2010-06-08 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 6/8/10 3:25 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: No, I'm not on the SC. I'm just here to ridicule... +--+ | PLEASE | | DO NOT | | FEED THE | | TROLL | +--+ | | | | .\|.||/.. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service

Re: [Nanog-futures] Transition update

2010-06-08 Thread Randy Bush
On 6/8/10 3:25 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: and wrote and wrote and wrote No, I'm not on the SC. I'm just here to ridicule... +--+ | PLEASE | | DO NOT | | FEED THE | | TROLL | +--+ | | | | .\|.||/.. but, with no data from our fearless [0] leadership, what