Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-24 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23 feb 2008, at 4:02, Tom Vest wrote: Which one of the published fields is the key field that enables you to identify the common recipient(s) of successive delegations over time? There is no such field. I didn't think so. So there is no accurate way to get anything like a sum of IP

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-24 Thread Roland Perry
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'm not sure why exactly you want to know how much space goes to how many organizations Several days ago, it seemed to me that Stephen Sprunk suggested that it would only take a change of policy of a handful of

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-24 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Tom Vest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Rechecking my own post to PPML, 73 Xtra Large orgs held 79.28% of ARIN's address space as of May 07; my apology for a faulty memory, but it's not off by enough to invalidate the point. The statisti

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Pakistan is deliberately blocking Youtube. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/24/1628213 Maybe we should all block Pakistan. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Will Hargrave > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:39 P

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Will Hargrave
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: Clearly, they are incensed by youtube content, so what makes anyone think that they would not be trying to engage in a case of Cyber-Jihad? Because this usually doesn't work very well, is very evident, and easily fixed? Even on a sleepy Sunday, it took 3491 about two ho

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clearly, they are incensed by youtube content, so what makes anyone > think that they would not be trying to engage in a case of Cyber-Jihad? > Let's avoid speculation as to the why and reserve this thread for glob

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake "Tom Vest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Rechecking my own post to PPML, 73 Xtra Large orgs held 79.28% of ARIN's address space as of May 07; my apology for a faulty memory, but it's

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Neil Fenemor
While they are deliberately blocking Youtube nationally, I suspect the wider issue has no malice, and is a case of poorly constructed/ implemented outbound policies on their part, and poorly constructed/ implemented inbound polices on their upstreams part. On 25/02/2008, at 9:49 AM, Tomas

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Clearly, they are incensed by youtube content, so what makes anyone think that they would not be trying to engage in a case of Cyber-Jihad? I hosted the site that was rated #1 on Google for the Jyllands Posten (di2.nu) cartoons when it was a current issue, and I STILL get lots of script kiddie DO

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread John van Oppen
Looks like it just went back to normal: cr1-sea-A>show ip bgp 208.65.153.253 BGP routing table entry for 208.65.153.0/24, version 41150187 Paths: (3 available, best #3) Flag: 0x8E0 Advertised to update-groups: 1 3 4 6 13 14 16 3356 3549

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 04:32:45PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: > Let's avoid speculation as to the why and reserve this thread for > global restoration activity. So, from the tit-bits I've picked up from IRC and first-hand knowledge, it would appear that 17557 leaked an announcement of 208.65.15

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Which means that, by advertising routes more specific than the ones they are poisoning, it may well be possible to restore universal connectivity to YouTube. > -Original Message- > From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Sena, Rich
I hate Cyber Jihads! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Neil Fenemor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Will Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Sun Feb 24 16:06:50 2008 Subject: RE: YouTube IP Hijacking Clearly, they are incensed by youtube co

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Max Tulyev
I think it was NOT a typo. This was a test, much more important test for this world than last american anti-satellite missile. And if they do it again with more mind, site will became down for a weeks at least... More of that, if big national telecom operator did it and have neighbors to fil

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Ferguson
-- "Tomas L. Byrnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems to me that a more immediately germane matter regarding BGP >route propagation is prevention of hijacking of critical routes. > The best you can _probably_ hope for is a opt-in mechanism in which you are alerted that prefixes you have "reg

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
I figured as much, but it was worth a try. Which touches on the earlier discussion of the null routing of /32s advertised by a special AS (as a means of black-holing DDOS traffic). It seems to me that a more immediately germane matter regarding BGP route propagation is prevention of hijacking of

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread sthaug
> > Which means that, by advertising routes more specific than the ones they > > are poisoning, it may well be possible to restore universal connectivity > > to YouTube. > > Well, if you can get them in there Youtube tried that, to restore service > to the rest of the world, and the announcem

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Campbell, Alex
Not if the hijackers have advertised a /24. Anything you advertise more specific than /24 will be lost on many networks' filters. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomas L. Byrnes Sent: Monday, 25 February 2008 8:49 AM To: Michael Smith; [

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 01:49:00PM -0800, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Which means that, by advertising routes more specific than the ones they > are poisoning, it may well be possible to restore universal connectivity > to YouTube. Well, if you can get them in there Youtube tried that, to restore

ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-24 Thread Jeroen Massar
First the operational portion: For all the affected network owners, please read and start using/implement one of the following excellent ideas: * Pretty Good BGP and the Internet Alert Registry http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/pdf/josh-karlin.pdf * PHAS: A Prefix Hijack Alert System http://i

Re: ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-24 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote: * Routing Registry checking, as per the above two rr.arin.net & whois.ripe.net contains all the data you need Networks who are not in there are simply not important enough to exist on the internet as clearly those ops folks don't care about their ne

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Jim Popovitch
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/?source=mobilepack&v=2.1.4&rlz=1H2GGLE_en&i=-3701578819353178822&c=CMOjuszq3ZEC&n=1 On 2/24/08, Max Tulyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it was NOT a typo. This was a test, much more important test for > this world than last american anti-satellite m

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:41:26PM +, Paul Ferguson wrote: > The best you can _probably_ hope for is a opt-in mechanism in > which you are alerted that prefixes you have "registered" with the > aforementioned system are being originated by an ASN which is not > authorized to originate them. h

Some ideas on how to protect against longer-prefix hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Fundamentally, this is a policy issue, and the implementation details will need to be worked out, but today's event with YouTube is an exclamation point on a problem many of us have been wrestling with for some time: the advertising of unused but non-bogon address space by cybercriminals. Whether

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Daniel Roesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:41:26PM +, Paul Ferguson wrote: >> The best you can _probably_ hope for is a opt-in mechanism in >> which you are alerted that prefixes you have "registered" with the >> af

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Randy Epstein
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Perhaps certain ASes that are considered "high priority", like Google, > YouTube, Yahoo, MS (at least their update servers), can be trusted to > propagate routes that are not aggregated/filtered, so as to give them > control over their reachability and immunity to longer-

RE: Some ideas on how to protect against longer-prefix hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread David Freedman
>1: Per my prior message, create a "SuperAS" that highly trusted entities How do we qualify those, are they linked to the amount of revenue we would lose from customers if they can't reach them? Can I be one of those? :) >2: Have some sort of algorithm that inversely relates AS number to longe

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Stewart
Very nice.. is there an ARIN equal that anyone knows of OR can you use the RIPE one for ARIN registered space? Just curious.. thanks.. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:07 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
I'm sure we can all find a list of "critical infrastructure" ASes that could be trusted to peer via the "high priority" AS. I'd say that the criteria should be: 1: Hosted at a Tier 1 provider. 2: Within a jurisdiction where North American operators have a good chance of having the law on their s

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Jason
This is similar, and available for all regions/ASNs. http://cs.unm.edu/~karlinjf/IAR/index.php -- Jason Paul Stewart wrote: Very nice.. is there an ARIN equal that anyone knows of OR can you use the RIPE one for ARIN registered space? Just curious.. thanks.. Paul -Original Message---

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:19:07PM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote: > Very nice.. is there an ARIN equal that anyone knows of OR can you use > the RIPE one for ARIN registered space? as the homepage states: "MyASN is open to be used by anyone. You don't have to be a Local Internet Registry (LIR) and y

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 24, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: I'm sure we can all find a list of "critical infrastructure" ASes that could be trusted to peer via the "high priority" AS. I'd say that the criteria should be: 1: Hosted at a Tier 1 provider. That is a silly requirement. (I am sorry, I tr

Re: ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-24 Thread Justin Shore
Jeroen Massar wrote: * PHAS: A Prefix Hijack Alert System http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/originChange.pdf (A live/direct BGP-feed version of this would be neat) Does PHAS still work? I tried to submit a request to subscribe a few weeks ago and never heard back from their automated system.

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
This candidate list of requirements is for route sources that North American Operators should trust to propagate long prefix routes, nothing more, nothing less. In that context, some of your comments don't really make sense. Perhaps you might like to propose criteria you would find useful in se

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: I figured as much, but it was worth a try. Which touches on the earlier discussion of the null routing of /32s advertised by a special AS (as a means of black-holing DDOS traffic). It seems to me that a more immediately germane matter rega

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Not if only trusted peers are allowed to advertise to that AS. It's the same mechanism proposed for blackholing on destination to dampen DOS a while back, except it is to prevent hijacking, and therefore doesn't run afoul of the AT&T patent (and now the prior art for this is in the public domain).

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:42:51 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4: With state of the art security and operations. > > I think we agree, but I wouldn't have said it like that. > How about state-of-the-art routing security? Seriously -- a number of us have been warning th

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Seriously -- a number of us have been warning that this could happen. More precisely, we've been warning that this could happen *again*; we all know about many older incidents, from the barely noticed to the very noisy. (AS 7007, anyon

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2: Within a jurisdiction where North American operators have a good > > chance of having the law on their side in case of any network outage > > caused by the entity. > > This is also a bit strange. Do your us

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Rick Astley
It does sort of shed light on a sobering fact that some of the PCCW's of the world are not using proper filtering, and with a coordinated effort, someone could inject a large number of routes into the global routing table through them effectively taking offline much of the Internet. Anything more

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: How about state-of-the-art routing security? The problem is what is the actual trust model? Are you trusting some authority to not be malicious or never make a mistake? There are several answers to the malicious problem. There are fewer answe

Re: ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-24 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 12:13 AM 25-02-08 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: For us who actually have customers we care about, we probably find it better for business to try to make sure our own customers can't announce prefixes they don't own, but accept basically anything from the world that isn't ours. You are

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 07:15 PM 24-02-08 -0500, Randy Epstein wrote: More importantly, why is PCCW not prefix filtering their downstreams? Why? - Lack of clue - Couldn't care less - No revenue Take your pick - or add your own reason. PCCW is not alone. They just happen to be the latest in a long line of ISP