Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 3 Aug 2015, at 12:10, John Levine wrote: Given how easy it still is to put a fake source address in an IP packet, it seems optimistic to assume that just because the packets all have the same return address, they're actually coming from the same place. Concur 100% - we see that from time t

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact

2015-08-02 Thread John Levine
>> DDoS = multiple IPs >> >> DoS = single IP > >It seems most people colloquially use DDoS for both, and reserve DoS for >magic-packet blocking exploits like the latest BIND CVE, FYI. Given how easy it still is to put a fake source address in an IP packet, it seems optimistic to assume that just

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread tqr2813d376cjozqap1l
3. Aug 2015 04:20 by valdis.kletni...@vt.edu: On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 03:58:31 -, tqr2813d376cjozqa...@tutanota.com said: >> > It seems most people colloquially use DDoS for both, and reserve DoS for >> > magic-packet blocking exploits like the latest BIND CVE, FYI. >> Then they are mistaken, unfo

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 03:58:31 -, tqr2813d376cjozqa...@tutanota.com said: > > It seems most people colloquially use DDoS for both, and reserve DoS for > > magic-packet blocking exploits like the latest BIND CVE, FYI. > Then they are mistaken, unfortunately. Feel free to try to reclaim the old

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 3 Aug 2015, at 10:58, tqr2813d376cjozqa...@tutanota.com wrote: Then they are mistaken, unfortunately. Bring pedantic for its own sake, when there's little possibility of confusion, isn't really constructive. Everyone, including you, knew what he meant.

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread tqr2813d376cjozqap1l
3. Aug 2015 03:54 by rdobb...@arbor.net: > On 3 Aug 2015, at 6:16, > tqr2813d376cjozqa...@tutanota.com> wrote: > >> DDoS = multiple IPs >> >> DoS = single IP > > It seems most people colloquially use DDoS for both, and reserve DoS for > magic-packet blocking exploits like the latest BIND CVE, F

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 3 Aug 2015, at 6:16, tqr2813d376cjozqa...@tutanota.com wrote: DDoS = multiple IPs DoS = single IP It seems most people colloquially use DDoS for both, and reserve DoS for magic-packet blocking exploits like the latest BIND CVE, FYI. --- Roland Dobbins

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 3 Aug 2015, at 8:47, Christopher Morrow wrote: oh .. maybe they really are all gone :) People still run things long after EoS, heh. A 6500 *with a Sup2T* is OK at the edge, for now - it has decent ASICs which support critical edge features, unlike its predecessors. Myself, I'd much rath

Did *bufferbloat* cause the 2010 flashcrash?

2015-08-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
This guy seems to think so, and his arguments seem pretty convincing to me, but I don't understand the financial system as well as I might. yarchive.net/blog/computers/flash_crash.html Gettys is namechecked in the piece. Cheers, -- jra -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> As anchors, I would be hard put to make a choice between a 6500 and a 7500, >> which was a fine router in its day but alas only had a useful lifetime of a >> small number of years.

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > As anchors, I would be hard put to make a choice between a 6500 and a 7500, > which was a fine router in its day but alas only had a useful lifetime of a > small number of years. Obsolescence happens. isn't some of L3's edge still 7500's? I

Re: GoDaddy : DoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Mel Beckman
Blackholing isn't what you want. That will still permit his source IP into your network, and only blackhole replies from your network, so the attack will still consume bandwidth. What you should request is a source IP ACL blocking that address at your upstream' border. BGP is no help in these s

Re: GoDaddy : DoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Jason LeBlanc
Thanks Mel. You are not being difficult, I meant DoS. The network I inherited doesn’t have BGP yet so I have asked our upstream to blackhole it and I emailed abuse neither have happened yet. I do block it but that’s after it hits our side. //Jason From: Mel Beckman mailto:m...@beckman.org>>

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Jason Hellenthal
Just block it -- Jason Hellenthal JJH48-ARIN On Aug 2, 2015, at 14:59, Jason LeBlanc wrote: My company is being DDoS'd by a single IP from a GoDaddy customer. I havent had success with the ab...@godaddy.com email. Was hoping someone that could help might be watching the list and could con

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Mel Beckman
Not to be difficult, but how can it be a DDoS attack if it’s coming from a single IP? Normally you would just block this IP at your borders or ask your upstreams to do so before it consumes your bandwidth. You still want to get GoDaddy to address the problem, of course, but you should do that vi

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread tqr2813d376cjozqap1l
2. Aug 2015 19:59 by jason.lebl...@infusionsoft.com: > My company is being DDoS'd by a single IP from a GoDaddy customer. > DDoS = multiple IPs DoS = single IP

GoDaddy : DDoS :: Contact

2015-08-02 Thread Jason LeBlanc
My company is being DDoS'd by a single IP from a GoDaddy customer. I havent had success with the ab...@godaddy.com email. Was hoping someone that could help might be watching the list and could contact me off-list. //Jason

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 02/08/2015 23:30, Randy Bush wrote: > otoh, i did not believe in the fad of using 65xxs at the bgp global > edge. while it was temporarily cheap, two years later not a lot of folk > had that many boats which needed anchoring. A juniper EX9200 is a switch and a cisco sup2t box is a router. The

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Randy Bush
>> so it is heavily routed using L3 on the core 'switches'? makes a lot >> of sense. > Lots of switches will happily forward layer 3 packets. and a lot of so-called switches will happily *route* at L3, which is i think the point. in this case, heavily subnetting a LAN, it makes a lot of sense.

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Josh Hoppes
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > josh, > > thanks for the more technical scoop. now i get it a bit better. > >> We also re-designed the LAN back in 2011 to break up the giant single >> broadcast domain down to a subnet per table switch. > > so it is heavily routed using L3 on t

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 02/08/2015 22:59, Randy Bush wrote: > so it is heavily routed using L3 on the core 'switches'? makes a lot of > sense. Lots of switches will happily forward layer 3 packets. Nick

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Randy Bush
josh, thanks for the more technical scoop. now i get it a bit better. > We also re-designed the LAN back in 2011 to break up the giant single > broadcast domain down to a subnet per table switch. so it is heavily routed using L3 on the core 'switches'? makes a lot of sense. randy

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Josh Hoppes
Not that often you see a bunch of people talking about a video you're in, especially so on NANOG. So here goes. BYOC is around 2700 seats. Total attendance was around 11,000. 2Gbps has been saturated at some point every year we have had it. Additional bandwidth is definitely a serious considerati

RE: Windows 10 Release

2015-08-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
An article in VARGuy said they'd booked 40 Tb/s of capacity from Akamai, Limelight, and four or five other CDNs that I did not recognize by name. I presume each machine will have to contact at least one machine at microsoft.com to confirm signatures on downloaded packages, et alia. - jra On Ju

Re: RE: Bright House IMAP highwater warning real?

2015-08-02 Thread tqr2813d376cjozqap1l
- Tell user that they're nearly out of storage. Specify how much they've used and how much they have total. Perhaps include a percentage - Mention that they could delete email that isn't needed to recover space. - (optional but nice) Show the subject and sender of the biggest messages - (optional

RE: Bright House IMAP highwater warning real?

2015-08-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
I think the body text of the message should identify it as coming from the Bright House email system? I think it should be written in standard USAdian English, which that is decidedly not. Or perhaps the problem is that that subject line was supposed to be parameterized, and the number of bytes

RE: Bright House IMAP highwater warning real?

2015-08-02 Thread Frank Bulk
What do you think their message should say? We struggled over this, too, and settled on some soft language, included information on how to purchase more storage, and also provided our email address and phone numbers. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org]

Bright House IMAP highwater warning real?

2015-08-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
Any brighthouse email admins on the list? My sister got the following high water warning message, with the included headers which, since they appear to include no Received: headers, look like they actually came from brighthouse's email cluster. If this is a real Bright House warning message, s

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:49, Mike Hammett wrote: If the core of the mission is local LAN play and your Internet connection fills up You're assuming the DDoS attack originates from outside the local network(s). I was curious as to whether they'd seen any *internal* DDoS attacks. And again, ext

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Mike Hammett
It most certainly does. If the core of the mission is local LAN play and your Internet connection fills up who gives a shit? The games play on. If your 500 megabit corporate connection gets a 20 terabit DDoS, your RDP session to the finance department will continue to hum along just fine.

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Dave Pooser wrote: I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb Internet pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets through to inconvenience the LAN party. I was involved in delivering 1GigE to Dreamhack in 2001 which at the time (if I

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:56, Alistair Mackenzie wrote: I would assume this would a start to the problem if your attacks were volumetric. In a world of 430gb/sec reflection/amplification DDoS attacks, not really. ;> Just increasing bandwidth has never been a viable DDoS defense tactic, due to

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:56, Mike Hammett wrote: It's completely reasonable when the world at large is only secondary to the local, on-net operations. It has nothing to do with DDoS. --- Roland Dobbins

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Laurent Dumont
I recently wrapped up a 1300 players with gigabit connections where we had a single 5gig link. We never saturated the link and peaked at 3.92Gbps for a new minutes. Bandwidth usage peaks on the first day and settles down after that (the event was during an entire weekend starting on friday). If

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Mike Hammett
It's completely reasonable when the world at large is only secondary to the local, on-net operations. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Roland Dobbins"

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Alistair Mackenzie
While increasing bandwidth to the endpoint isn't viable wouldn't increasing the edge bandwidth out to the ISP be a start in the right direction? I would assume this would a start to the problem if your attacks were volumetric. Once the bandwidth is there you can look at mitigation before it reach

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:44, Dave Pooser wrote: I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb Internet pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets through to inconvenience the LAN party. While increasing bandwidth is not a viable DDoS defense tactic, decreasin

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Dave Pooser
>>any security protections so competitors can't kill off their >> competition?) > >It would be interesting to learn whether they saw any DDoS attacks or >cheating attempts during competitive play, or even casual >non-competitive play amongst attendees. I wonder if that would be a reason for the re

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:32, Christopher Morrow wrote: any security protections so competitors can't kill off their competition?) It would be interesting to learn whether they saw any DDoS attacks or cheating attempts during competitive play, or even casual non-competitive play amongst attendees

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Niels Bakker wrote: > I guess a tale of punching 300-odd patchpanels is not that captivating to > everybody out there. I find this hard to believe. :) I was hoping for more 'how the network is built' (flat? segmented? any security protections so competitors can't

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Harald F. Karlsen
On 01.08.2015 21:27, Sean Donelan wrote: What Powers Quakecon | Network Operations Center Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOv62lBdlXU Cool stuff! For reference here are the blog for the tech-crew at the worlds second largest LAN-party, The Gathering: http://technical.gathering.org/ A fe

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Niels Bakker wrote: Also, 2 Gbps for 4,400 people? Pretty lackluster compared to European events. 30C3 had 100 Gbps to the conference building. And no NAT: every host got real IP addresses (IPv4 + IPv6). Quakecon is essentially a giant LAN party. Bring Your Own Computer

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Steam moved to http streaming few years ago for exact that reason > On 2 авг. 2015 г., at 4:51, Steven Miano wrote: > > historically steam/game downloads are not > cahce'able

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Niels Bakker
* ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) [Sun 02 Aug 2015, 13:37 CEST]: ietf, >1k people, easily fits in 10g, but tries to have two for redundancy. also no nat, no firewall, and even ipv6. but absorbing or combatting scans and other attacks cause complexity one would prefer to avoid. in praha, there was

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Randy Bush
> Also, 2 Gbps for 4,400 people? Pretty lackluster compared to European > events. 30C3 had 100 Gbps to the conference building. And no NAT: > every host got real IP addresses (IPv4 + IPv6). ietf, >1k people, easily fits in 10g, but tries to have two for redundancy. also no nat, no firewall, an

Re: best practice for number of RR

2015-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/Aug/15 18:34, marco da pieve wrote: > Hi Shane, > for the boxes that are currently installed in the network, this is not a > valid option (politically/commercially speaking). Well, Cisco, Juniper and ALU are shipping carrier-grade OS's that will run on a server in a VM. Brocade is also kno

Re: best practice for number of RR

2015-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/Aug/15 17:38, marco da pieve wrote: > Hi all, > this is my first time in asking for advices here and I hope not to bother > you with this topic (if it has been already covered in the past, would you > please please point me to that discussion?). > > Anyway, I need to decide whether to go for

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Niels Bakker
* mian...@gmail.com (Steven Miano) [Sun 02 Aug 2015, 03:52 CEST]: It would have been more interesting to see: -- a network weather map -- the ELK implementation -- actual cache statistics (historically steam/game downloads are not cahce'able) Not quite true according to http://blog.multiplay.