Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Randy Bush
> A member of Microsoft's GNS network escalations team saw my postings on > NANOG about this issue and took offense at my use of this forum to raise > this issue with them, and criticized me as being unprofessional and > lacking in business acumen. they try that intimidation every time a vulner

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6 mei 2008, at 23:29, Nathan Anderson/FSR wrote: > Now, although that makes sense, in order to avoid issues like the > one we > are facing with Microsoft, would it not make _more_ sense for the > stack > to look at the PMTU cache first, and then adjust its own MSS just for > connections to

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6 mei 2008, at 23:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> A more common approach is to rewrite the MSS option in all TCP SYNs >> with a smaller value so there won't be TCP segments large enough to >> trigger the problem. AFAIK, all boxes that do PPPoE do this. > And just the other day, you were saying

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Interestingly, Windows XP, Sp3, released today, describes changes in > PMTUD behavior. > > Black Hole Router detection is now on by default: As I pointed out in my post earlier today timestamped at 2:29PM, I was using an XP SP3 host to perform my tests with, and it made

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
All, A member of Microsoft's GNS network escalations team saw my postings on NANOG about this issue and took offense at my use of this forum to raise this issue with them, and criticized me as being unprofessional and lacking in business acumen. Therefore, I would like to publicly apologize fo

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On May 6, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Interestingly, Windows XP, Sp3, released today, describes changes in > PMTUD behavior. > > Black Hole Router detection is now on by default: > > http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/7/687484ed-8174-496d-8db9-f02 > b40c12982/Overview%20of%

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Interestingly, Windows XP, Sp3, released today, describes changes in PMTUD behavior. Black Hole Router detection is now on by default: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/7/687484ed-8174-496d-8db9-f02 b40c12982/Overview%20of%20Windows%20XP%20Service%20Pack%203.pdf > -Original Messag

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
` > Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:29:03 -0700 > From: Nathan Anderson/FSR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? > > > Now, although that makes sense, in order to avoid issues like the one we > are facing with Microsoft, would it not make _more_ sense for the stack

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
Nathan Anderson/FSR wrote: [...] > connections to that one host? Maybe even send out an MTU - 40 ICMP :s/40/sized. Brain fart. -- Nathan Anderson First Step Internet, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.na

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > A more common approach is to rewrite the MSS option in all TCP SYNs [snip] Yeah, we do this now, but the software that we have been using for PPPoE termination as well as for a huge portion of our clients (MikroTik RouterOS) doesn't do it correctly in my estimat

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
Brandon Butterworth wrote: > I used to see it a lot when hosting on windows was popular and people > realised they needed a firewall or decided to add a load balancer > but broke PMTUD by leaving it enabled on the servers. Yeah, but this is Microsoft's OWN server farm we are talking about here,

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6 mei 2008, at 21:58, Brandon Butterworth wrote: >> Has anyone else here seen problems with microsoft/msn/hotmail/ >> live.com >> sites not performing PMTUD correctly? > I used to see it a lot when hosting on windows was popular and people > realised they needed a firewall or decided to add a

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> Has anyone else here seen problems with microsoft/msn/hotmail/live.com > sites not performing PMTUD correctly? I used to see it a lot when hosting on windows was popular and people realised they needed a firewall or decided to add a load balancer but broke PMTUD by leaving it enabled on the ser

[NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
Hello, Has anyone else here seen problems with microsoft/msn/hotmail/live.com sites not performing PMTUD correctly? We have, for a while now, had people on our network complain of poor microsoft.com reachability, and discovered we can work around the issue by changing MSS on all TCP SYN as th

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: > This stuff about customers and things sounds too hard. > > Steve, have you actually had to do anycast without having control of > the routing hop in front of your service providing hosts, or is this > getting unnecessarily complicated? I'd imagine that the