Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

2014-03-27 Thread Luke S. Crawford
It might make sense to just give everyone their own vlan and their own /64; that would, of course, bring its own problems and complexities (namely that I've gotta have the capability to deal with more customers than I can have native vlans - not impossible to get around, but significant ad

Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

2014-03-27 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On 03/26/2014 11:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Why not just use private VLAN layer 2 controls for the privacy you describe? The technology I know of is what cisco calls 'protected ports' - My understanding is that those simply mean you can't pass traffic to or from other 'protected ports' - I

Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

2014-03-26 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On 03/26/2014 03:49 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:55:03AM -0700, Luke S. Crawford wrote: There are many ways to skin this cat; stateless autoconfig looks like it mostly works, but privacy extensions seem to be the default in many places; outgoing IPv6 from those random

Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

2014-03-26 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On 03/24/2014 06:18 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: DHCPv6 is no less robust in my experience than DHCPv4. ARP and ND have mostly equivalent issues. This depends a lot on what you mean by 'robust' Now, I have dealt with NAT, and I see IPv6 as a technology with the potential to make my life less unple

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-29 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On 08/29/2013 07:43 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: +10 Good explanation. This is a lot of why I have someone like Cogent/L3/etc and some random transit provider in most of my pops I spec, plus a backhaul to another node. ... One thing to keep in mind is that for major Tier 1s, it's not at all uncom

Re: PDU recommendations

2013-06-23 Thread Luke S. Crawford
I also have had good experience with (used) servertech/century/power tower (I think all the same brand) - very inexpensive; if you are in santa clara I have some spare 2u 16 port 208v (20a/c19) units. Here is something a buddy wrote up when we were wiring them to the user-accessable power o

Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-08 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 07:43:42PM -0700, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: > Why haven't we taken this out of the hands of website operators yet? > Why can't I use my ssh-agent to sign in to a website just like I do > for about hundred servers, workstations, and my PCs at home? > > One local password used

Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

2012-05-27 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:34:22PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:39:16PM -0400, Luke S. Crawford wrote: > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:06:03AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > ... Feel free to turn the process around -- decide what > > >

Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

2012-05-26 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:06:03AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > We pay what our providers think they can get away with. Like most pricing > decisions, they're not based on any "technical logic", they're based on what > the market will bear. Feel free to turn the process around -- decide what >

Re: ISPs and full packet inspection

2012-05-24 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:50:47AM -0400, not common wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for some guidance on full packet inspection at the ISP level. > > Is there any regulations that prohibit or provide guidance on this? Unless you are absolutely huge, and maybe even then, you need to worry more

Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-03 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:59:47AM -0400, Brandt, Ralph wrote: > One of the first things cellular companies can do is stop overselling > cellular. The second is end or raise the price significantly on > unlimited plans, both voice and data. Go to what the landlines called, > USS, that is you pay

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-28 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:32:17PM -0400, ad...@thecpaneladmin.com wrote: > Anyone have any tips for getting IPs from ARIN? For an end-user > allocation they are requesting that we provide customer names for > existing allocations, which is information that will take a while to > obtain. They ar

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-15 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:52:51AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > Consider that the probability 16GB of SDRAM experiences at least one > single bit error at sea level, > in a given 6 hour period exceeds 66% = 1 - (1 - 1.3e-12 * 6)^(16 * > 2^30 * 8).In any given 24 hour period, the probability of

Re: Question about peering

2012-04-07 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:25:24PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > Generally the costs of transit are pushed down by competition. As a > vendor your costs for bandwidth/transport/port*bw may drop but you are > unlikely to drop your prices to your customers merely because your > costs have gone

Re: Question about peering

2012-04-07 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:16:30PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > Sometimes making the AS path as short as possible makes a lot of sense > (e.g. when trying to get an anycast network to do the right thing), > but assumptions that peering results in lower costs are less true > every day. I keep

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-24 Thread 'Luke S. Crawford'
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 02:42:36PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote: > I've been many times where you were, frustrated that I didn't know the dark > fiber options for a potential opportunity, but you have to remind yourself > don't have a *right* to know where *private* fiber is. It's not just the > physic

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-22 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:31:47PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > You agree on a price per distance (e.g.: mile/foot/whatnot). > > Lets say the cable costs $25k to install for the distance of 5000 feet. > > That cable has 144 strands. > > You need access to one strand. If you install it yourself,

Re: Flexible BGP liist?

2012-03-15 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Joe Maimon wrote: > So we have a wiki list of 1U rack hosting. We do? where? all I see on http://nanog.cluepon.net is spam > How about a list of SP's willing to configure BGP over whatever you got, > including tunnels? And willing to allocate you spa

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
Richard A Steenbergen writes: > > You've never seen a single port go bad on a switch? I can't even count > the number of times I've seen that happen. Not that I'm not suggesting > the OP wasn't the victim of a human error like unplugging the wrong port > and they just lied to him, that happens

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread Luke S Crawford
goe...@anime.net writes: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote: > > 1. are there people who apply pressure to ISPs to get them to shut down > > botnets, like maps did for spam? > > sadly no. ... Why do you think this might be? Fear of (extralegal) retaliation by bo

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-08 Thread Luke S Crawford
Roland Dobbins writes: > On Aug 8, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > > > 2. is there a standard way to push a null-route on the attackers > > source IP upstream? > > Sure - if you apply loose-check uRPF (and/or strict-check, when you > can do so) on Cisco

Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-07 Thread Luke S Crawford
rs source IP upstream? I know the problem is difficult due to trust issues, but if I could null route the source, it's just a matter of detecting abusive traffic, and with this attack, that part was pretty easy. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid.

Re: Why choose 120 volts?

2009-05-26 Thread Luke S Crawford
ask me. (I imagine the guys who have to deal with cooling feel differently, but at my scale, that's all priced into the power.) -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept We don't assume you are stupid.

Re: integrated KVMoIP and serial console terminal server

2009-04-24 Thread Luke S Crawford
Joe Abley writes: > What is everybody's favourite combination rack-mount VGA/USB KVM-over- > IP and serial console concentrator in 2009? > > I'm looking for something that will accommodate 8 or so 9600bps serial > devices and about 12 VGA/USB devices, all reachable over IP via sane > means (ssh,

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-28 Thread Luke S Crawford
bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes: > or - the more modern approach is to let the node (w/ proper authorization) > do a secure dynamic update of the revserse map - so the forward and reverse > delegations match. ... a -VERY- useful technique. I have a question. Is this an abuse problem? som

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Brandon Galbraith" writes: > But it's definitely not cool when my credit card company cuts off my card > due to "abnormal charges" when I'm abroad and suddenly can't get ahold of > customer service via their international phone number. Automation in the > right places works wonders for both conve

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > > speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort > > against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. > > I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. > > unfortunately snort does not really scale to a large

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > be specific, like "if you run X tools the payoff will be Y." Yes. And where is the appropriate form for this?I find this sort of thing quite interesting; and yeah, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing NANOG is for, but most of the small ISP forms (like webhostingtalk

Re: updating & checking DNS zone files

2008-07-05 Thread Luke S Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Apart from using Bernstein's tinydns, anyone have any scripts > for looking for problems in zone files or for incrementing the > serial number reliably? If you are using BIND, your problem is solved by DDNS and nsupdate. this has the added advantage of making it signi

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Luke S Crawford
Peter Beckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ...snip "use snort" suggestion > This is what I think we should ALL be doing -- monitoring our own network > to make sure we aren't the source, via customers, of the spam or DOS > attacks. All outbound email from your own network should be scann

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Luke S Crawford
Peter Beckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you are taking card-not-present credit card transactions over the ...snip "hard to charge fradulent customers" and also "verifying customer identity annoys the customer"... points- The goal here is to give abuse a negative expected return. One w

Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising?

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Christopher Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, how do you know you can trust the VPN folks anymore than the > cable-modem folks though? eventually the same cost issues are going to > arise for the VPN folks as did for cable-modem/dsl folks (downward > pressure on pricing and infra/opex/cape