Re: DSL Network Design Question

2005-08-15 Thread
Roy Badami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Interesting, thanks. TBH, I really don't understand why Cisco have > kept the classful support for this long... When a friend was doing a CCNA back in 2003-ish, Cisco were still teaching classful addressing. There was plenty of other misinformation th

Re: DSL Network Design Question

2005-08-15 Thread Mark Foster
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy Badami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Interesting, thanks. TBH, I really don't understand why Cisco have kept the classful support for this long... When a friend was doing a CCNA back in 2003-ish, Cisco were still teaching classful addres

drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
Below is a periodic public report from the drone armies / botnets research and mitigation mailing list. For this report it should be noted that we base our analysis on the data we have accumulated from various sources. According to our incomplete analysis of information we have thus far, we now

zotob C&C servers

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
Hi guys. Zotob, once infected, connects the machine to a botnet C&C (command & control) server. Due to the extremely rapid spread of these worms, here is the C&C servers information that has been confirmed so far: 62.193.233.52:8080 84.244.7.62:8080 204.13.171.157:8080 62.193.233.4:8080 ASN

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
[ SNIP ] > Below is a periodic public report from the drone armies / botnets > research and mitigation mailing list. > For this report it should be noted that we base our analysis > on the data > we have accumulated from various sources. > > According to our incomplete analysis of information

Re: zotob C&C servers

2005-08-15 Thread Michael Grinnell
We haven't seen it yet on our network, but I was hoping somebody might have a text dump or packet capture of the C&C traffic that they would be willing to send me so I can tune our IDS to recognize it. I already have exploit rules loaded, just wanted to see if the C&C traffic varied sig

zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
I heard from several different big ISP's that to stop the spread of the worm they now block tcp/445. I suppose it works. Gadi.

Re: botnet reporting by AS - what about you?

2005-08-15 Thread James Baldwin
On Aug 13, 2005, at 12:03 AM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Good suggestions for Gadi. ,-) - ferg -- "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cool, among the 800k+ complaints we see a month (yes, 800k) there are quite a few completely useless ones :( Anything sent in as a compl

Re: zotob C&C servers

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
Michael Grinnell wrote: We haven't seen it yet on our network, but I was hoping somebody might have a text dump or packet capture of the C&C traffic that they would be willing to send me so I can tune our IDS to recognize it.I already have exploit rules loaded, just wanted to see if th

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem in blocking it. For example: grc.com/su-techzone1.htm scott - Original Message Follows - From: Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nanog list Subject: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:51:43 +0200 > I heard f

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2005-08-15 18:51 +), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem > in blocking it. I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet and how not to. There are real solu

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
> I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost > billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet > and how not to. thanks for that! > There are real solutions to the problem, which include monitoring > the end-user traffic and do traffic steering for infected host

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2005-08-15 09:28 -1000), Randy Bush wrote: > > There are real solutions to the problem, which include monitoring > > the end-user traffic and do traffic steering for infected hosts > > to a web page thats helps solving their problem. > > for we who are under-clued, do you have a url for sug

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Bush writes: > >> I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost >> billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet >> and how not to. > >thanks for that! Indeed. Also see http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-10-18-edge-filter

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Saku Ytti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nanog list Subject: Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:22:10 +0300 > On (2005-08-15 18:51 +), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no > > problem in blo

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
>>> I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost >>> billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet >>> and how not to. >> thanks for that! > Indeed. Also see > http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-10-18-edge-filters.html as i just replied to a private message

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
The question of self promotion came back split down the middle. It was noted that IL CERT does a fantastic job seeing that there are no IL networks listed. Or none that are easily identifiable. YMMV. -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 VeriSign, Inc.

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem > in blocking it. rule #1: do not be the Internet's Firewall rule #2: see rule #1 a leaf network can make any decisions they want on traffic filtering, large ISP's should probably no

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread MARLON BORBA
Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to investigate and to preserve their networks clean of debris like spyware and trojans. Do what you want with your networks, but PLEASE keep the Internet clean.

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
> Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the > Internet community. Their alerts allow to responsible network > admins to investigate and to preserve their networks clean of > debris like spyware and trojans. The point is that aged data is an eternity when you're talking

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, MARLON BORBA wrote: > > Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet > community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to I don't think anyone disputed the 'good work'. The dispute, as often is the case with these sorts of reports, is '

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Shane Amante
Chris, This isn't directed at you, just adding my 2 cents to the thread ... On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem in blocking it. rule #1: do not be the Internet's F

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Golding
On 8/15/05 4:46 PM, "Randy Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet and how not to. >>> thanks for that! >> Indeed. Also see >> http://www.iab.org/documents/doc

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Daniel Golding wrote: > > > On 8/15/05 4:46 PM, "Randy Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost > billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet > and how not to. > >>> thanks for th

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
> While its not uncommon to run SMB/Windows file system drive mounts across > private WANs, doing so across the Internet, on a non-encrypted tunnel, is > the equivalent of running with scissors. yep. agree. but, as it does not damage the track, and only opens the runner to harm, as the track ma

Re: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Vixie
> > Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet > > community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to > > investigate and to preserve their networks clean of debris like spyware > > and trojans. > > The point is that aged data is an eternity when you're tal

RE: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Church, Chuck
>'enterprise security folks' are probably not the issue... The fact remains >that lots of folks DO do this :( There are quite a few folks between >'consumer' and 'enterprise' that do all manner of dumb things on the >Internet (where 'dumb' is equivalent to running smb shares across the >public n

RE: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Church, Chuck wrote: > > > >'enterprise security folks' are probably not the issue... The fact > remains > >that lots of folks DO do this :( There are quite a few folks between > >'consumer' and 'enterprise' that do all manner of dumb things on the > >Internet (where 'dumb'

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
Randy Bush wrote: I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet and how not to. thanks for that! Indeed. Also see http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-10-18-edge-filters.html as i just replied to a private m

Re: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
MARLON BORBA wrote: Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to investigate and to preserve their networks clean of debris like spyware and trojans. Do what you want with your networks, but PLEASE keep t

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
> the > summaries are primarily useful for C&C's that are still alive > a month later > even though plenty of notices have been sent to the relevant > NOC's. in > other words it's sort of like defcon's "wall of sheep". i > like the approach. Wall of sheep certainly is humorous, but IL CERT

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Gadi Evron wrote: > > Randy Bush wrote: > I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost > billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet > and how not to. > >>> > >>>thanks for that! > >> > >>Indeed. Also see > >>http://www.iab.org

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:05:30 MDT, Shane Amante said: > > > Leaf network filtering (or not) is largely solved. > > Ahem. :) > > If this was a "solved" problem, we'd not be having a thread about a zotob > worm. > thank you.

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:05:30 MDT, Shane Amante said: > Leaf network filtering (or not) is largely solved. Ahem. :) If this was a "solved" problem, we'd not be having a thread about a zotob worm. There's a *very* large gap between "the clued know of a range of suitable solutions" and "the great

Re: zotob C&C servers

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
Michael Grinnell wrote: We haven't seen it yet on our network, but I was hoping somebody might have a text dump or packet capture of the C&C traffic that they would be willing to send me so I can tune our IDS to recognize it.I already have exploit rules loaded, just wanted to see if th

Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Gadi Evron
[snip arguments] Do not become the internet firewall for your large customer base... it's bad. Okay, so please allow me to alter the argument a bit. Say we agreed on: 1. Security is THEIR (customers') problems, not yours. 2. You are not the Internet's firewall. That would mean you would st

Re: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread David Ulevitch
On Aug 15, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Hannigan, Martin wrote: the summaries are primarily useful for C&C's that are still alive a month later even though plenty of notices have been sent to the relevant NOC's. in other words it's sort of like defcon's "wall of sheep". i like the approach. Wall of s

RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

2005-08-15 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 05:05 PM 15-08-05 -0400, Hannigan, Martin wrote: It was noted that IL CERT does a fantastic job seeing that there are no IL networks listed. Or none that are easily identifiable. It is not IL-CERT but rather peer pressure on an internal Israeli ISP mailing list. Incidentally, there are 2

RE: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Erik Amundson
I've always been kind of conflicted with this issue. I mean, providers blocking traffic at all. On the one hand, I'm a corporate customer, and if I'm being DOSed or infected, I would want to be able to call my ISP and have it blocked. On the other hand, I truly feel that I pay my ISPs to pass t