Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> >> or if >> the name-servers serving the wildcard were required to collect and >> publish information and statistics. This would have allowed analysis >> of the effectiveness of the mitigations, etc. > > > This, however, is more interesting and should another round occur, I think > it'd

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> >> or if >> the name-servers serving the wildcard were required to collect and >> publish information and statistics. This would have allowed analysis >> of the effectiveness of the mitigations, etc. > > > This, however, is more interesting and should another round occur, I think > it'd

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread David Conrad
Warren, On October 3, 2016 at 12:33:12 PM, Warren Kumari (war...@kumari.net) wrote: ... and just for the record, much much more could have been determined  (and users better warned / informed) if the address handed out was a  server which displayed an error / links to more information[0], I'm not

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread Danny McPherson
> > I realize that you, Warren, are virtuous and would not do anything bad with > all of the secrets people fling at your server, but given the reality of the > TLD ecosystem, how confident are you that nobody else running such a server > would? Precisely why they ought to be notified of thei

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread John R Levine
Gee, I'd think you of all people would be aware that there's more to the Internet than the web. ... Did you read the footnote? Yup. It sounds like a way to collect vast amounts of interesting information that companies had no idea they were leaking. Not every connection comes from somethin

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread Warren Kumari
On Monday, October 3, 2016, John R Levine wrote: > The wildcard 127.0.53.53 and such are clever, but none of the domains that have been delegated had significant collision issues to start with so it's hard to argue they've been effective. >>> ... >>> >> > ... and just for the recor

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread John R Levine
The wildcard 127.0.53.53 and such are clever, but none of the domains that have been delegated had significant collision issues to start with so it's hard to argue they've been effective. ... ... and just for the record, much much more could have been determined (and users better warned / info

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread Danny McPherson
> On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > > ... and just for the record, much much more could have been determined > (and users better warned / informed) if the address handed out was a > server which displayed an error / links to more information[0], or if > the name-servers serving

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-10-03 Thread Warren Kumari
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > On 18 Sep 2016, at 14:10, John Levine wrote: > 4.2.4. Name Collision in the DNS ... >> >> >>> This study is from before the new gTLD program. The assumption in the >>> report need to be tested against what actually happened in the round

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-09-28 Thread Keith Mitchell
> william manning Tue, 20 September 2016 > 04:29 UTC wrote: > back in the early days of potentially confusing > assignments/delegations, I was asked to stand up authoritative > servers for the RFC 1918 space. The first iteration was just a > wildcard to TXT.Clients (early microsoft clients

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-09-19 Thread william manning
this bit of thread jumped out. > In the case of mitigation through wildcard-to-localhost, it is safe to >> assume that many organizations did in fact mitigate; we simply can't tell >> how many or when. >> > > How come? > back in the early days of potentially confusing assignments/delegations, I

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-09-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
On 18 Sep 2016, at 15:21, John R Levine wrote: It is impossible to measure the effectiveness without knowing how many collision queries are just noise (queries that will cause no noticeable damage if they started coming back with results). Agreed. I don't see how to find that out in ways tha

Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-09-18 Thread John R Levine
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness without knowing how many collision queries are just noise (queries that will cause no noticeable damage if they started coming back with results). Agreed. I don't see how to find that out in ways that are not hard to back out if it turns out the d

[DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

2016-09-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
On 18 Sep 2016, at 14:10, John Levine wrote: 4.2.4. Name Collision in the DNS ... This study is from before the new gTLD program. The assumption in the report need to be tested against what actually happened in the round of new gTLDs before it can be included as part of the fact basis for