Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:08:12 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Joe Greco said: > > FreeBSD used a 64-bit time_t for the AMD64 port pretty much right > > away. On the flip side, it used a 32-bit time_t for the Alpha > > port. I guess someone predicted "it wouldn't be a problem." > >

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Greco said: > FreeBSD used a 64-bit time_t for the AMD64 port pretty much right away. > On the flip side, it used a 32-bit time_t for the Alpha port. I guess > someone predicted "it wouldn't be a problem." Tru64 on Alpha uses a 32 bit time_t (they have their own time64_t an

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Joe Greco
> Once upon a time, Nathan Malynn said: > > Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now? > > Unix/POSIX systems use "time_t" to store the base time counter, which is > seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). Most platforms still > use a 32 bit time_t for c

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
Nuno et all, Count me in for this.. Cheers, --Ricardo http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rveloso On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. We want to have a Si

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Eric Gearhart
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nathan Malynn wrote: > Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now? > Exactly! What are we going to do when we're at the end of the 2^64 epoch?? (after the sun burns out and.. oh wait) -- Eric http://nixwizard.net

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Nathan Malynn said: > Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now? Unix/POSIX systems use "time_t" to store the base time counter, which is seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). Most platforms still use a 32 bit time_t for compatibility

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Nathan Malynn
Question about 2k38: Aren't most Unixoid systems using 64-bit clocks now? On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Ravi Pina said: >> Yes... that is more like the y2k38 problem on 03:14:07 UTC >> 2038-01-19... > > Oddly enough, the end of the current Unix epoch is

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Ravi Pina said: > Yes... that is more like the y2k38 problem on 03:14:07 UTC > 2038-01-19... Oddly enough, the end of the current Unix epoch is a prime. Not only that, it is a Mersenne prime, 2^31 - 1. Even more, it is the largest known Mersenne prime where its Mersenne number

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Smith
And/or see if bell canada can sell you something diverse. - Original Message - From: Seth Mattinen To: Charles Regan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Fri Feb 13 18:58:54 2009 Subject: Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP Charles Regan wrote: > The problem we have now is that we got our /22 from arin t

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
You haven't lived until you've lived through an epoch. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:54:54PM -0500, Ravi Pina wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:49:49PM -0500, Steve Church wrote: > > Just in case you missed it. > > > > date -d "Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009" +%s > > > > It's like a really geeky y2

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
Charles Regan wrote: > The problem we have now is that we got our /22 from arin to do multihoming. > If we dump tlb, no more multihoming? No /22. Is that correct? > > We also have a contract with tlb. > $$$ 1.5yrs left... > > There's something in there about non-multihomed sites, but I'm not f

Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Ravi Pina
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:49:49PM -0500, Steve Church wrote: > Just in case you missed it. > > date -d "Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009" +%s > > It's like a really geeky y2k without the potential cataclysm. :) > > Steve Yes... that is more like the y2k38 problem on 03:14:07 UTC 2038-01-19... ..

Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-13 Thread Steve Church
Just in case you missed it. date -d "Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009" +%s It's like a really geeky y2k without the potential cataclysm. :) Steve

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Regan
The problem we have now is that we got our /22 from arin to do multihoming. If we dump tlb, no more multihoming? No /22. Is that correct? We also have a contract with tlb. $$$ 1.5yrs left... 2009/2/13, Seth Mattinen : > Charles Regan wrote: >> Isp2 is vtl not bell >> >> 2009/2/13, Seth Matti

Chicago Sprint convulsions?

2009-02-13 Thread neal rauhauser
Is anyone else seeing convulsions via Sprint Chicago? Lightly loaded OC3 and we've got stuff all over the net seeing crazy latency. -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser

Re: Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

2009-02-13 Thread Fernando Gont
Barry Shein wrote: > And it was observed that routing around damage could at least in > theory have utility in a situation where circuit facilities were being > damaged in warfare so long as some route between two points remained. > > So these two goals are not mutually exclusive by any means. T

RE: anyone knows about extreme switch

2009-02-13 Thread LEdouard Louis
The default user name is admin and there is no password. --Louis -Original Message- From: ann kok [mailto:oiyan...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 5:31 PM To: nanog@nanog.org; LEdouard Louis Subject: RE: anyone knows about extreme switch Thank you it works properly Do you kn

RE: anyone knows about extreme switch

2009-02-13 Thread ann kok
Thank you it works properly Do you know the default pw? Thank you again --- On Fri, 2/13/09, LEdouard Louis wrote: > From: LEdouard Louis > Subject: RE: anyone knows about extreme switch > To: oiyan...@yahoo.ca, nanog@nanog.org > Received: Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:11 PM > We use Extreme

Re: Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

2009-02-13 Thread Barry Shein
From: Fernando Gont >While many textbooks and articles have created the myth that the >Internet protocols were designed for warfare environments, the top level >goal for the DARPA Internet Program was the sharing of large service >machines on the ARPANET. This in itself has become an oft-repeate

RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Smith
>-Original Message- >From: Paul Stewart [mailto:pstew...@nexicomgroup.net] >Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:50 PM >To: Michael Smith; Charles Regan; nanog@nanog.org >Subject: RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP > >Telebec's only upstream is Bell Canada (AS577) hence why you see >that...;) > >Paul

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
eventually, the rpki will give you the first half, authentication of the owner of the ip space. this leaves, as smb hinted, securing the request path from the black-hole requestor to the service and of the service to the users. smb: > You can't do this without authoritative knowledge of exactly w

RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Smith
That was my implication... >-Original Message- >From: Paul Stewart [mailto:pstew...@nexicomgroup.net] >Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:50 PM >To: Michael Smith; Charles Regan; nanog@nanog.org >Subject: RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP > >Telebec's only upstream is Bell Canada (AS577) hence wh

RE: anyone knows about extreme switch

2009-02-13 Thread LEdouard Louis
We use Extreme products, but use telnet or SSH behind firewall. Can you use telnet? It provide more flexibility, but SSH is more secure Regardless of the connection the CLI configuration is the same. HyperTerminal setting? Baud rate-9600 Data bits-8 Stop bit-1 Parity-None Flow control-XON/XOFF

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
Charles Regan wrote: > Just got final confirmation from ISP1 that they will not do BGP with us. > > ISP1 is Telebec. > http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=ipwhois&user_data=142.217.0.0&submit=Go > > My subnet > http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=ipwhois&user_data=204.144.60.0&submit=Go

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:57:32 +0100, Jens Ott - PlusServer AG said: >> Therefore I had the following idea: Why not taking one of my old routers and >> set it up as blackhole-service. Then everyone who is interested could set up >> a >> session to there and >> >> 1.) announce

RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Stewart
Telebec's only upstream is Bell Canada (AS577) hence why you see that...;) Paul -Original Message- From: Michael Smith [mailto:msm...@internap.com] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:34 PM To: Charles Regan; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP I see multiple paths to that

RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Smith
I see multiple paths to that block all converge at bell.ca. I don't see a route with 35911 (telebec) in the AS_PATH, unless it is start-of-string and followed by _577_ (bell.ca). They seem to be consistent... >-Original Message- >From: Charles Regan [mailto:charles.re...@gmail.com] >Se

anyone knows about extreme switch

2009-02-13 Thread ann kok
Hi I have old model extreme switch Anyone knows about hyperterminal setting. ls null modem cable same as HP serial cables? I try both cables in this switch and can see the boot information but keyboard is not responsing ! Thank you ___

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Regan
Just got final confirmation from ISP1 that they will not do BGP with us. ISP1 is Telebec. http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=ipwhois&user_data=142.217.0.0&submit=Go My subnet http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=ipwhois&user_data=204.144.60.0&submit=Go What can we do now ? Any suggesti

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jake Mertel
I think this solution addresses a number of issues that the current blackhole process lacks. Generally when a blackhole is sent to your provider, they in turn pass that on to the rest of their routers, dropping the traffic as soon as it hits their network. The traffic is still taking up just as

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Paul Vixie wrote: >> >> blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're >> saying >> the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect >> the >> infrastructure. and you're saying victims will request

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Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Bates schrieb: > Paul Vixie wrote: > > Do you have a miraculous way to stop DDOS? Is there now a way to quickly > and efficiently track down forged packets? Is there a remedy to shutting > down the *known* botnets, not to mention the unknown ones

Weekly Routing Table Report

2009-02-13 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
Paul Vixie wrote: blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're saying the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect the infrastructure. and you're saying victims will request this, since they know they can't withstand the attack and don't want t

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
FYI - I think Paul knows exactly what you are talking about. Hint - review the seminar: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog36/abstracts.php?pt=Mzk5Jm5hbm9nMzY=&nm=n anog36 > -Original Message- > From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:23 AM >

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Jester
Listen online to my favorite hip hop radio station http://www.Jellyradio.com On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're saying the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect the infrastruct

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
Before everyone goes off and re-invents the wheel, please heed the advice already provide by Randy, Steve, and Valdis. Community instigated RTBH is used by a variety of Operational Security Communities. _Experience_ has demonstrated caution. _Experience_ has pointed to the ways you use these tools

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Vixie
blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're saying the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect the infrastructure. and you're saying victims will request this, since they know they can't withstand the attack and don't want to be held responsibl

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In other words, a legitimate prefix hijacking service... Absolutely, NOT. The origin AS will still be the AS that controls the IP space. In fact, I think SBGP would be great for a layout like this to secure down the injections. That being said, prefix lists with md5

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Tico
Jens, I would be interested in participating with a destination blackhole service, so long as peers were authenticated and only authorized to advertise /32s out of space that they are assigned -- hopefully the same OrgID is used for the ASN as the IP allocations. However, a blackhole service

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven M. Bellovin schrieb: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:41:41 + (WET) > Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: > >> Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, >> and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. >> >> We want

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
Paul Vixie wrote: i think Spamhaus and Cymru are way ahead of you in implementing such a thing, and it's likely that there are even commercial alternatives to Trend Micro although i have not kept up on those details. I think there's a misunderstanding from what I've read about what is being bl

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 @jack: sorry for duplicate ... pressed reply instead of reply-all ;) Jack Bates schrieb: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Presumably, the route server would have to have the same guidelines as > issued by service providers. ie, /32 networks injected

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:41:41 + (WET) Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: > Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, > and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. > > We want to have a Sink-BGP-BL, based on Destination. > > Imagine, i as an ISP, host a part

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skywing schrieb: > Of course, whomever hosts such a service becomes an attractive DoS target > themselves if it were ever to gain real traction in the field. There is also > the "reverse-DoS" issue of an innocent party getting into the feed if anyon

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Skywing
Of course, whomever hosts such a service becomes an attractive DoS target themselves if it were ever to gain real traction in the field. There is also the "reverse-DoS" issue of an innocent party getting into the feed if anyone can peer with it. - S -Original Message- From: Nuno Vieir

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Vixie
wrote: > > > - - What do you think about such service? > > > - - Would you/your ASN participate in such a service? > > > - - Do you see some kind of usefull feature in such a service? > > > - - Do you have any comments? - "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote: > > Ah. rbl.maps.vix.com from about a

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. We want to have a Sink-BGP-BL, based on Destination. Imagine, i as an ISP, host a particular server that is getting nn Gbps of DDoS attack. I null route it, and start adver

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: How do you vet proposed new entries to make sure that some miscreant doesn't DoS a legitimate site by claiming it is in need of black-holing? Note that it's a different problem space than a bogon BGP feed or a spam-source BGP feed - if the Cymru guys take another 6

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
DDoS drones - especially with botnets - can produce a really large zone To start with google "spamhaus drop list". Then look at the cbl and see if you think its worth using as a bgp feed On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > But in the meanwhile, a d

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:57:32 +0100, Jens Ott - PlusServer AG said: > Therefore I had the following idea: Why not taking one of my old routers and > set it up as blackhole-service. Then everyone who is interested could set up a > session to there and > > 1.) announce /32 (/128) routes out of his pre

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Hi Suresh, But in the meanwhile, a decade later, it does not longer exist. At least, i can't reach that host, and i was unable to find working documentation on google of how about this project works, today. In fact, the first link that google gave out, says that this project is dead at least 2

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
In that way, Spamcop and other folks are DOS'ing for years aswell. And in fact, by denying things around, they are just scrubing and filtering, to make our day happier, avoiding huge masses of spam and useless crap. I don't see it the way you do. A project like this, like also spamcop, are gre

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Hi Jens, I think we are in the same boat. We suffered the same problem often, on a lower magnitude, but if a project like this exists those DDoS could even be almost near zero. This is somewhat similar to what Spamcop, and other folks do with SPAM today, but applied on a diferent scope, say, B

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
would this itself not be a dos path? randy

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jens Ott - PlusServer AG wrote: > - - What do you think about such service? > - - Would you/your ASN participate in such a service? > - - Do you see some kind of usefull feature in such a service? > - - Do you have any comments? Ah. rbl.maps.vix.com from about a d

Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in the last 24 hours we received two denial of service attacks with something like 6-8GBit volume. It did not harm us too much, but e.g. one of our upstreams got his Amsix-Port exploded. With our upstreams we have remote-blackhole sessions runnin

The Cidr Report

2009-02-13 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Feb 13 21:13:35 2009 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

BGP Update Report

2009-02-13 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 12-Jan-09 -to- 12-Feb-09 (32 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS9583 187305 4.3% 125.8 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited 2 - AS7643 167261 3.8%