RE: RIP Justification

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathon Exley
It also scales better from the SP point of view. If you have 1000 L3VPN services on your PE node using OSPF to the customer that would require a lot of memory for the multiple LSDBs and a lot of CPU for the SPF calculations. BGP is nicer but the reality is that many enterprises don't have the kno

Re: Request for participation - Arbor 2010 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report.

2010-10-04 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: > Why are we required to register to look at the survey? That's how it's set up by the biz folks who provide the funding and resources which allow us to conduct the survey, analyze the responses, and then write and publish the report free of char

Re: [Nanog-futures] Memberships, Bylaws and other election matters

2010-10-04 Thread Randy Bush
> Short term cash supply is important; we have a decent lag between now > and NANOG 52 where there will be a significant outflow of cash for > salaries, hotel contracts, etc. without any meeting revenue. yes, the published data do show that plan. and i guess it is not outrageous. a choice betwee

Re: [Nanog-futures] Memberships, Bylaws and other election matters

2010-10-04 Thread Randy Bush
>> personally, i am not strongly against it, but am sceptical. it may get >> a cash infusion now, but what will it do to income down the road when >> folk don't need to renew? [0] > > Furthermore, your opposition will surely depress demand even more, > because now folks are saying "why would I pa

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Kevin Stange
On 10/04/2010 11:47 AM, Greg Whynott wrote: > > A partner had a security audit done on their site. The report said they were > at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record. We publish a ~all record for our domain. I think it's bad practice to publish any other result becau

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Randy Bush
> With regards to the Wired Article, I still have my copy of that issue > and would consider that article perhaps my favorite magazine article > of all time. i too thought that a great article and often point folk to it. sadly, the copy on the wired web site does not have the figures :( randy

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Monday, October 04, 2010 9:54 AM -0700 John Adams wrote: Without proper SPF records your mail stands little chance of making it through some of the larger providers, like gmail, if you are sending in any high volume. You should be using SPF, DK, and DKIM signing. I don't really unders

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Dorn Hetzel
With regards to the Wired Article, I still have my copy of that issue and would consider that article perhaps my favorite magazine article of all time. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > On 10/4/2010 1:24 PM, Heath Jones wrote: > >> By the way, my recollection is the und

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Heath Jones
What's that quote again...? Oh, that's it: "The more you know, the more you know you don't." It feels very appropriate now :) Cheers Patrick for that great info & to everyone who contacted me off-list also! > A halfway-decent description of the physics of how this is done, is > covered in Neal S

[NANOG-announce] Election reminder

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Feldman
Everyone who registered for a NANOG meeting in 2009 or 2010 is eligible to vote in this year's combined NANOG/NewNOG election. If you are eligible and have not already done so, please go to http://www.nanog.org/governance/elections/2010elections/ to review the election materials and vote. Note

2010.10.04 NANOG50 Monday afternoon notes

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Petach
Here's my notes from the Monday afternoon presentations. Apologies for the gaps where I nodded off in post-lunch food coma, as well as for the typos and misspellings that snuck in. Notes are posted at http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-afternoon-notes.txt Off to Bear and Gear now. ^

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread Mark Kosters
On 10/4/10 4:58 PM, "David Conrad" wrote: > On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, John Curran wrote: >> On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>> Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one. >> New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have >> extremely challenging to a

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:05:12 EDT, Suresh Ramasubramanian said: > dig throwaway1.com NS > dig throwaway2.com NS > > etc etc ... and then check_sender_ns_access in postfix, for example. Yes, that *is* better than whack-a-mole on the same DNS server, but... The NANOG lurker in the next cubicle used

Re: [ncc-services-wg] RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread Randy Bush
> 1) We have not implemented support for this yet. We plan to go live > with the fully hosted version first and extend it with support for > non-hosted systems around Q2/Q3 2011. this is a significant slip from the 1q11 we were told in prague. care to explain. > Randy Bush who is cc-ed may be ab

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
dig throwaway1.com NS dig throwaway2.com NS etc etc ... and then check_sender_ns_access in postfix, for example. Scales much better than whackamoling one domain after the other on the same NS On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:59 PM, wrote: > > 140 million .coms. Throw-away domains. I do believe that Ma

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:30:55 PDT, Owen DeLong said: > Removing a few points probably isn't a bad idea so long as you have a list of > domains for which points should be added. 140 million .coms. Throw-away domains. I do believe that Marcus Ranum had "trying to enumerate badness" on his list of "S

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread David Conrad
On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, John Curran wrote: > On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one. > New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have > extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle > the curren

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 10/04/2010 10:05 AM, John Adams wrote: >> We've seen percentage gains when signing with DK, and we carefully >> monitor our mail acceptance percentages with ReturnPath. It's around >> 4-6%. I'd like to stop using it, but some people still ch

NANOG50 VCR (Vendor Collaboration Room)

2010-10-04 Thread John Jason Brzozowski
Hopefully you are all aware of the NANOG50 VCR, please visit the following page for additional information: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog50/vcr.php We wanted to send you a quick email and provide some additional information about the VCR. When in or near the VCR feel free to connect any o

re: Akamai Traffic Spikes

2010-10-04 Thread Nick Olsen
Didn't see any spikes here, But from the looks of that graph something sure happened. It was huge, And only for a short period, Strange. Nick Olsen Network Operations (877) 804-3001 x106 From: "Scott, Robert D." Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:51 PM T

Re: Akamai Traffic Spikes

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Scott, Robert D. wrote: > We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were looking > at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our traffic > patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai utilization graphs > show a

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread John Curran
On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > > Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one. Seth - New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle the current query rate. Look at the NANOG pre

Re: Request for participation - Arbor 2010 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report.

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Weeks
--- rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: From: "Dobbins, Roland" The 2009 edition of the survey is available here (registration required): Why are we required to register to look at the survey? scott

Akamai Traffic Spikes

2010-10-04 Thread Scott, Robert D.
We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were looking at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our traffic patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai utilization graphs show a near doubling of retail traffic in the same time period that

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Greg Whynott wrote: > > A partner had a security audit done on their site. The report said they > were at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record. Bullshit. > I commented to his team that the SPF idea has yet to see anything near > mass deployment and of t

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Whynott
i think it was an observation they made, and suggestions to make things better. I don't think the message was "fix this or you'll be off the air one day.". if they have a 56k port speed(stuck in the 80's), there is potential there for a DoS from a large volume of spam back splatter..

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Greg Whynott wrote: > A partner had a security audit done on their site. >The report said they were at risk of a DoS due to >the fact they didn't have a SPF record. > > how many of you are using SPF records?  Do you > have an opinion on their use/non use of? I us

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Greg Whynott wrote: > > A partner had a security audit done on their site.  The report said they were > at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record. This is pure unadulterated BS from someone who doesnt understand either DDOS mitigation, or SPF

RE: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Rod Beck
> By the way, my recollection is the undersea regenerators do purely optical > regeneration. > There is no O-E conversions undersea, only at the landing stations and > terrestrial components. I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you could do optical regeneration without converting the

Re: RIP Justification

2010-10-04 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:28:30PM +, Tim Franklin wrote: > Leaf-node BGP config is utterly trivial [...] > > The Enterprise guys really need to get out of the blanket "BGP is scary" > mindset It's not just "enterprise" mindset. Over the years I've seen a lot of deployed gear that either di

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Douglas Otis
On 10/4/10 12:47 PM, Greg Whynott wrote: A partner had a security audit done on their site. The report said they were at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record. I commented to his team that the SPF idea has yet to see anything near mass deployment and of the millions of

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:47:52PM -0400, Greg Whynott wrote: > how many of you are using SPF records? Do you have an opinion on their > use/non use of? 1. Not using them, and don't have any (observed) problems despite years of closely monitoring mail logs looking for just such issues. 2. Note

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 10/4/2010 1:24 PM, Heath Jones wrote: >> By the way, my recollection is the undersea regenerators do purely optical >> regeneration. >> There is no O-E conversions undersea, only at the landing stations and >> terrestrial components. > > I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you coul

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread nick hatch
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Heath Jones wrote: > > I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you could do optical > regeneration without converting the signal to electrical and > retransmitting back as optical.. How is that done? > > I'm not sure how it's done in practice, but check out

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Jared Mauch
I've found lots of domains with +all which really should be -all since they were all spam. Jared Mauch On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: >> If it passes SPF we remove a few points of the spam weight. > > I would rethink this practice. Many spammers publish SPF valid record

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Heath Jones
> By the way, my recollection is the undersea regenerators do purely optical > regeneration. > There is no O-E conversions undersea, only at the landing stations and > terrestrial components. I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you could do optical regeneration without converting the

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/4/2010 10:05, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-morning-notes.txt > > " > Whois traffic has been going through the roof; they > added more proxies in front to support it. > Apparently, there's IP management packages that do > whois queries. It would

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/04/2010 10:05 AM, John Adams wrote: We've seen percentage gains when signing with DK, and we carefully monitor our mail acceptance percentages with ReturnPath. It's around 4-6%. I'd like to stop using it, but some people still check DK. Sigh. I was hoping not to hear that. It's been about

RE: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> If it passes SPF we remove a few points of the spam weight. I would rethink this practice. Many spammers publish SPF valid records these days precisely because of this. Nathan

RE: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Rod Beck
Hi Frank, Yes it does include all the O-E conversions. By the way, my recollection is the undersea regenerators do purely optical regeneration. There is no O-E conversions undersea, only at the landing stations and terrestrial components. Since the system is just in the planning stage, the la

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Whynott
it was the backskatter they were referring to, where spamers forge your domain as the source of the email. Thanks John for your comments, -g On Oct 4, 2010, at 12:54 PM, John Adams wrote: > Without proper SPF records your mail stands little chance of making it > through some of the large

Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-morning-notes.txt " Whois traffic has been going through the roof; they added more proxies in front to support it. Apparently, there's IP management packages that do whois queries. It would be good to find out who is doing it, and talk to ARIN engi

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread John Adams
We've seen percentage gains when signing with DK, and we carefully monitor our mail acceptance percentages with ReturnPath. It's around 4-6%. I'd like to stop using it, but some people still check DK. -j On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 10/04/2010 09:54 AM, John Adams

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:47:52PM -0400, Greg Whynott wrote: > > A partner had a security audit done on their site. The report said they were > at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record. that does not follow at all. > > I commented to his team that the SPF ide

Geoff Huston's study on IPv6 Background Radiation - now on RIPE Labs

2010-10-04 Thread Mirjam Kuehne
Hi, Earlier today, Geoff Huston presented the following at NANOG 50 in Atlanta: Background Radiation in IPv6. You can read the full story now on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/background-radiation-in-ipv6 Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/04/2010 09:54 AM, John Adams wrote: Without proper SPF records your mail stands little chance of making it through some of the larger providers, like gmail, if you are sending in any high volume. You should be using SPF, DK, and DKIM signing. There should really be no reason to sign with

re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Nick Olsen
We use SPF. Lots of the bigger guys require it. Along with DK/DKIM signing. In our spam weight based filtering, if it hardfails it drops it, softfail(no spf record) we don't add or remove points at all. If it passes SPF we remove a few points of the spam weight. Nick Olsen Network Operations (8

2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Petach
For those who might care, I've put version 1.0 of my notes from the morning session up at http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-morning-notes.txt and I bounced apache on the box, since it seemed to have gotten hung--sorry about that, for those who were puzzled at the timing out URL from

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread John Adams
Without proper SPF records your mail stands little chance of making it through some of the larger providers, like gmail, if you are sending in any high volume. You should be using SPF, DK, and DKIM signing. I don't really understand how your security company related SPF to DoS though. They're unre

RE: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> how many of you are using SPF records? Do you have an opinion on their > use/non use of? We use SPF on most client domains. On inbound filtering, we add no score for a lack of SPF record, and we reject mail if the SPF record hardfails. We've seen it reduce domain-imposter spam. It's not t

do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Whynott
A partner had a security audit done on their site. The report said they were at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record. I commented to his team that the SPF idea has yet to see anything near mass deployment and of the millions of emails leaving our environment yearly,

2010.10.03 NANOG50 NANOG Community meeting nots

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Petach
Here's my notes from the community meeting from last night; sorry about being a bit late with them, the meeting ran long, and we dashed straight out from it to the social, which had already started by the time we wrapped up. ^_^;; Apologies for any typos still in the notes, I did a quick proofread

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-04 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Curtis Maurand wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the f

Re: [ncc-services-wg] RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread Owen DeLong
>> >> No... I'm saying that if ISPs aren't the only entities that hold their >> private keys, then they aren't the only entities that can sign their >> resources. > > The hosted system that we created uses Hardware Signing Modules (HSM) > for generating keys and signing operations. By design it i

Re: [ncc-services-wg] RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread Owen DeLong
> >> I'll go a step further and say that the resource holder should be >> the ONLY holder of the private key for their resources. >> >> Owen > > If you're saying that ISPs can only participate in an RPKI scheme if they > run their own Certificate Authority, then I think that would practically >

Re: RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread Alex Band
The thread got a bit torn apart due to some cross posting, so here are Randy and Owen's replies to keep it all together: On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Do you think there is value in creating a system like this? yes. though, given issues of errors and deliberate falsifications

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-04 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the

Re: [ncc-services-wg] RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread Alex Band
On Mon, October 4, 2010 04:38, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> Do you think there is value in creating a system like this? >> >> yes. though, given issues of errors and deliberate falsifications, i am >> not entirely comfortable with the whois/bgp combo b

Re: [ncc-services-wg] RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread mkarir
Hi Alex, We are trying to tackle a similar problem with the RADB. The approach we have taken is to build into the object management web portal an alerting system that provides alerts to a user when there is a mismatch between what is in the IRR and what is observed in BGP. Right next to

Re: RPKI Resource Certification: building features

2010-10-04 Thread Alex Band
And here is my reply to them... On Mon, October 4, 2010 04:38, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Do you think there is value in creating a system like this? yes. though, given issues of errors and deliberate falsifications, i am not entirely comfortable wi