rate limiting (Re: Open DNS Resolver reflection attack Mitigation)

2012-06-10 Thread Paul Vixie
he 15 million open recursives would be good to see fixed. at the moment most attacks are using authority servers, where it's far easier to automatically tell attack flows from non-attack flows. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: ROVER routing security - its not enumeration

2012-06-10 Thread Paul Vixie
, arguments from non-operators should and do carry less weight.) -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Our first inbound email via IPv6

2012-06-10 Thread Paul Vixie
Randy Bush writes: > > ... > i have assiduously avoided gaining serious anti-spam fu. but it seems > to me that ipv6 does not create/enable significantly more spam-bots. the malware will generally have complete control over the bottom 64 bits of an ipv6 address. there's no reason to expect to e

Re: Our first inbound email via IPv6

2012-06-10 Thread Paul Vixie
"Livingood, Jason" writes: > In preparation for the World IPv6 Launch, inbound (SMTP) email to the > comcast.net domain was IPv6-enabled today, June 5, 2012, at 9:34 UTC. > Roughly one minute later, at 9:35:30 UTC we received our first > inbound email over IPv6 from 2001:4ba0:fff4:1c::2. That fi

Re: isc - a good business

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Vixie
On 2012-05-30 12:53 AM, Nabil Sharma wrote: > Paul: > > Where can we read details about the services ISC provided to the FBI, > and how they were compensated? it's in the AP News article published a few weeks ago. for an example: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/23/hundreds-thousands-may-lo

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Vixie
is the effect of seeing one of those rrsets but not the other? (here again we see the disadvantage of starting from incomplete information.) On 2012-05-30 4:24 AM, Shane Amante wrote: > On May 29, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> ... >> >> the problem is in time domain bo

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Vixie
On 2012-05-29 5:37 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: >>> I agree with the person higher up the thread that ROVER seems like >>> just another distribution mechanism for what is essentially RPKI data. noting, that up-thread person also said "i havn't studied this in detail so i'm probably wrong." >> But do

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-05-29 Thread paul vixie
On 5/29/2012 10:27 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:01:59PM +, > paul vixie wrote > a message of 37 lines which said: > >> i can tell more than that. rover is a system that only works at all >> when everything everywhere is working well,

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-05-28 Thread paul vixie
On 5/28/2012 9:42 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On May 28, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> third, rsync's dependencies on routing (as in the RPKI+ROA case) are not >> circular (which i think was david conrad's point but i'll drag it to here.) > Nope. My poin

Re: isc - a good business

2012-05-28 Thread Paul Vixie
(all caught up after this.) Jay Ashworth writes: > - Original Message - >> From: "paul vixie" > >> On 5/28/2012 11:52 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> > ... maybe a bit too much layer ten for my taste. ... >> >> on that, we're trying to im

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-05-28 Thread Paul Vixie
nt of need. that's nuts for a lot of reasons, one of which is its potentially and unmanageably circular dependency on the acceptance of a route you don't know how to accept or reject yet. my take-away from this thread is: very few people take RPKI seriously, but even fewer take ROVER seriously. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: isc - a good business

2012-05-28 Thread paul vixie
On 5/28/2012 11:52 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > ... maybe a bit too much layer ten for my taste. ... on that, we're trying to improve. for example, we used to forego features that some of us found repugnant, such as nxdomain remapping / ad insertion. since the result was that our software was less rele

isc - a good business

2012-05-28 Thread paul vixie
greetings. i didn't notice this before, and i want to complete the record. i'm paying more attention to the quoting this time, too. > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 04:33:28PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:40 AM, wrote: > > > Paul will be there to turn things off when

vixie, father of multitudes

2012-05-23 Thread paul vixie
and they call it BIND as well, it would be a HUGE leap of faith to call Paul Vixie the father of BIND - The Berkeley Internet Naming Daemon. Methinks we're talking at cross purposes. maybe... :) my comment was refering to the "father of bin

rpki vs. secure dns?

2012-04-27 Thread Paul Vixie
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/27/2039237/engineers-ponder-easier-fix-to-internet-problem > "The problem: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enables routers to > communicate about the best path to other networks, but routers don't > verify the route 'announcements.' When routing problems erupt, '

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Vixie
increased member involvement, as well as broader > involvement from the community. (For instance, policy petitions > should include responses from the entire affected community, not just > PPML.) But my criticisms should be interpreted as constructive, and > are not an indictment of the whole approach. thanks for saying so. -- Paul Vixie

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Vixie
way that's bad? ARIN's bylaws firmly place control of ARIN into the hands of its members. if you think that's the wrong approach, i'm curious to hear your reasoning and your proposed alternative. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Vixie
publically here, or privately, as you prefer. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

not operational -- call for nominations for ARIN council & board

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Vixie
renew several expiring terms. candidates need not be ARIN members. please see <https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110725_elec.html> and think about whether who you can nominate or whether you can self- nominate. paul vixie chairman, 2011 arin nomcom

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:32:59 -0700 > From: Doug Barton > > ... the highly risk-averse folks who won't unconditionally enable IPv6 > on their web sites because it will cause problems for 1/2000 of their > customers. let me just say that if i was making millions of dollars a day and i had the

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:22:46 -0700 > From: Michael Thomas > > > that's a good question. marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect > > that ICANN could also have an impact on this by having applicants sign > > something that says "i know that my single-label top level domain name > > will

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000 > > On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, > > universally. > > How? that's a good question. marka mentioned w

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:30:58 -0500 > From: Jeremy > > "DK" may not be hierarchical, but "DK." is. If you try to resolve "DK" > on it's own, many (most? all?) DNS clients will attach the search > string/domain name of the local system in order to make it a FQDN. The > same happens when you tr

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
then get burned by all of the local "foobar.this.tld" and "foobar.that.tld" names that will get reached instead of their TLD. i say inevitable; i don't know a way to avoid it since there will be a lot of money and a lot of people involved. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
in a search list containing 'this' and 'that', where the default search list is normally the parent domain name of your own hostname (so for me on six.vix.com the search list would be vix.com and so as long as dk.vix.com did not exist then http://dk/ would reach "dk.") -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
, see: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm other rootops who have spoken about this have said similar/compatible things. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: v6 proof of life

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Vixie
g on whoever-owns-those-Supermicro-board's part. > That's not to say there's a route back, by any means. i'll bet i'm not alone in seeing traffic from this prefix. as a rootop i can tell you that we see plenty of queries from ipv4 rfc1918 as well. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

v6 proof of life

2011-06-06 Thread Paul Vixie
it's been a while since i looked at the query stream still hitting {rbl,dul}.maps.vix.com. this was the world's first RBL but it was renamed from maps.vix.com to mail-abuse.org back in Y2K or so. i have not sent anything but NXDOMAIN in response to one of these queries for at least ten years, yet

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:49:47 -0400 > From: Steve Clark > > This is all very confusing to me. How are meaningful names going to assigned > automatically? It'll probably be a lot like Apple's and Xerox's various multicast naming systems if we want it to work in non-globally connected networks

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:07:17 +0200 > From: Mans Nilsson > > > > ... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone > > > reach it by name. > > > > that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it possible. > > I'd like to respond to this by stating that I

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: Owen DeLong > Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:12:27 -0700 > > ... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone > reach it by name. that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it possible.

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:37:46 -0400 > From: Jim Gettys > > > perhaps i'm too close to the problem because that solution looks quite > > viable to me. dns providers who don't keep up with the market (which > > means ipv6+dnssec in this context) will lose business to those who do. > > I don't

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-14 Thread Paul Vixie
dns providers who don't keep up with the market (which means ipv6 and dnssec in this context) will lose business to those who do. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-14 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: Marshall Eubanks > Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:02:16 -0400 > > I think that the real question is, when will people who are running > IPv4 only not be on the Internet by this definition ? is there an online betting mechanism we could use, that we all think will still be in business decades

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-14 Thread Paul Vixie
an IP packet from'". Seth Breidbart by which definition, matthew's observation would be correct. folks who want to run V6 only and still be "on the internet" will need proxies for a long while. folks who want to run V6 only *today* and not have any proxies *tod

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-27 Thread Paul Vixie
controlled by infectable pc's means we'll be blackholing by /64 when we blackhole in ipv6. it's no big deal. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: NTT as a service provider in the US

2011-02-27 Thread Paul Vixie
so because your post looks like trolling to me. if you ask again with a real domain name and a real meatspace signature, i'll be happy to say what i think about ntt as a service provider in the US. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:13:49 -0600 > From: Jimmy Hess > > With them not requiring a /8 in the first place (after CIDR); one > begins to wonder how much of their /8 allocations they actually > touched in any meaningful way. i expect that after final depletion there will be some paid transfer

Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Vixie
size of the global routing table... what whacky kids we all were. hint: i had hair back then.) -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Verizon acquiring Terremark

2011-02-02 Thread Paul Vixie
e. i think the "neutral and commercial" model is very well established and that verizon will not want to be the only carrier in those facilities nor have their circuit-holders be the only customers for the real estate. it's an awful lot of space to use just as colo, and it's bot

Re: Verizon acquiring Terremark

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Vixie
Jeffrey Lyon writes: > One cannot be owned by a carrier and remain carrier neutral. > > My two cents, my experience running PAIX when it was owned by MFN was not like you're saying. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Vixie
if so what mode to deploy in. on the ARIN BoT i have likewise been very interested in and supportive of RPKI and i'm happy to repeat john curran's words which were, ARIN is looking at the risks and benefits of various RPKI deployment scenarios, and we expect to do more public and member outrea

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Vixie
nce he needs on this question. i hope to see many of you at the upcoming ARIN public policy meeting in san juan PR where this is sure to be discussed both at the podium and in the hallways and bar rooms. Paul Vixie Chairman and Chief Scientist, ISC Member, ARIN BoT

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-08 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:17:55 +0900 > From: Randy Bush > > let me be a bit more clear on this thanks. > o you affect the operational community, you talk with (not to) the > operational community where the operational community talks i think arin does this today. certainly that is th

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-08 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:11:32 -1000 > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > the price of changing what ARIN does is, at a minimum: participation. > > Another view is that ARIN's whole and sole reason for being is to >

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-08 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:01:52 -1000 > > > do you have a specific proposal? i've noted in the past that arin tries > > hard to stick to its knitting, which is allocation and allocation policy. > > Yes. This is a positive (IMHO), however it seems that occasionally, > ARIN's

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-08 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:47:51 +0900 > From: Randy Bush > ... > more recent rumors, and john's posting here, seem to indicate that > ... even to the extent that i know what's really happened or happening, i'd be loathe to comment on rumours. i have high confidence in arin's board and staff, a

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Vixie
ity wanted arin to run SIGs or WGs on things like routing policy arin could do it but that a lot of folks would say that's mission creep and that it would be arin poaching on nanog lands. -- Paul Vixie Chairman and Chief Scientist, ISC Trustee, ARIN

nanog@nanog.org

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: "Robert Glover" > Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:02:42 -0800 > > Try calling 1-800-332-1321. It is a general repair number for POTS > and DSX circuits. They are clueful, and if they aren't the right > people to call, they will likely be able to point you in the right > direction. thanks, tha

nanog@nanog.org

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Vixie
there's a pacific telephone j-box at the edge of a parking lot in san mateo california that's been hit by a car hard enough to spring the door open. the copper punchdowns are now freely and publically accessible. i think it's not pac tel or pac bell or sbc any more, so what i need is to know how

Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays

2010-08-29 Thread Paul Vixie
John Jason Brzozowski writes: > This does not alter our plans for our native dual stack trials, in fact, I > hope to have more news on this front soon. comcast native dual stack is working fine at my house. "traceroute6 -q1 mol.redbarn.org" shows details.

Re: [Bruce Hoffman] Thank-you for your recent participation.

2010-06-27 Thread Paul Vixie
iling lists for years. > I recommend blacklisting them permanently. domains and/or cidrs, plz? -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Vixie
d...@bungi.com (Dave Rand) writes: > ... > With more than 100,000,000 compromised computers out there, it's really > time for us to step up to the plate, and make this happen. +1. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: getting the hint

2010-04-16 Thread Paul Vixie
miscreant VIA PRIVATE EMAIL or a note tied to > a brick, but do not prate incessantly about it on the list. +1. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:52:24 -1000 > > On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > ... i'd like to pick the easiest problem and for that reason i'm urging > > dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 for all networks new or old. > > Is anyon

Re: Solar Flux

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
f.root-servers.net. IN 2001:500:2f::14:0 f.root-servers.net. IN 2001:510:2f::f f.root-servers.net. IN 2101:500:2f::f f.root-servers.net. IN 2109:500:2f::f f.root-servers.net. IN LOC \# 16 20 01 05 00 00 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
pulation and serves a global economy. if the rate of endpoint growth does not continue beyond ipv4 pool exhaustion we'll have a problem. if it does, we'll also have a problem but a different problem. i'd like to pick the easiest problem and for that reason i'm urging dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 for all networks new or old. -- Paul Vixie Chairman, ARIN BoT

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
e nature and location of that tipping point amount to reading tea leaves. nevertheless if everybody who can deploy dual-stack does so, we'll reach that tipping point sooner and it'll be less spectacular. -- Paul Vixie Chairman, ARIN BoT

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
g the "chicken little dance". however, for many networks, growth is life, and for them, free pool depletion is a problem. -- Paul Vixie Chairman, ARIN BoT

Re: Commodore PET, was: Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
seems like i saw an Apple I at that show, and also a SOL, which i remember thinking very highly of since it had an S-100 bus. the PET was there but with the itty bitty keyboard the machine was a bit of a head-scratcher for the crowd. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: China prefix hijack

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Vixie
ical intent because china-vs-google's been in the news a lot today? i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs and that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad publicity. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Vixie
d don't tune anything, so there's no advantage to silent discard or to asynchronous filtering. everything that can be rejected synchronously, should be. there's a small chance that the rejection notice will go to a nonbot nonspammer who can correct their mistake and retry. that chance is worth taking. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: DNS server software

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Vixie
ed to ISC DLV, see <http://dlv.isc.org/>. Most server hosts here run FreeBSD on AMD64/EM64T or else i386. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Vixie
published SPF records evaluated as if "~all" and "?all" are "-all" i think if RFC 2821 is to be updated to address the backscatter problem, it ought to be along those lines, rather than "everything must be synchronous." -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: DNS queries for . IN A return rcode 2 SERVFAIL from windows DNS recursing resolvers

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Vixie
ameserver" they are using. (is the same recursive nameserver used in all four tests?) > I cant seem to find any online information regarding this difference of > behavior. > > Enlightenment appreciated. i suggest re-asking this over on dns-operati...@lists.dns-oarc.net, since it a bit deep in the DNS bits for a general purpose list like NANOG. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: EDNS (Re: Are the Servers of Spamhaus.rg and blackholes.us down?)

2010-01-01 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:16:31 + > From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com > > It would help if the BIND EDNS0 negotiation would not fall back to > the 512 byte limit - perhaps you could talk with the ISC developers > about that. i don't agree that your proposed change would h

EDNS (Re: Are the Servers of Spamhaus.rg and blackholes.us down?)

2010-01-01 Thread Paul Vixie
oing to be another game of chicken -- will the people who build and/or deploy such crapware lose their jobs, or will ICANN back down from DNSSEC? -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-30 Thread Paul Vixie
ook for mission creep opportunities. ARIN will go on doing what the community asks, no less, no more. ARIN has no mechanism, as a company, for "[paying] attention to [your] collective work product". our members, and the public at large who participates in ARIN's policy development process, do that. -- Paul Vixie Chairman, ARIN BoT KI6YSY

Re: DNS question, null MX records

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Vixie
er to verify that a piece of e-mail had come from us using some kind of semi-opaque H(message-id) scheme, but in studying it i found that as usual with spam the economic incentives are all backwards. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: DNS question, null MX records

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Vixie
974 today (since i see a lot of them come to my A RR rather than an MX RR, or in the wrong order). any well known pattern that says "don't try to deliver e-mail here" will only be honoured by friend people who don't want us to get e-mail we don't want to get. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:21:30 -0600 > From: Jorge Amodio > > Among the many wonderful things Internet has created in the past 2+ > decades, it gave birth to a countless number of "Internet Experts" ... for example, some of us got a chance to witness the following. i've removed all identifyin

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Vixie
for people who know how to do that, then we'd all still be using Usenet over modems. we're trying to build digital infrastructure for all of humanity, and that means stuff like the above has to be unnecessary. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:25:39 -0800 > > At some point, we may as well bite the bullet and redefine http{,s} as IPv7. since products and services designed to look inside encrypted streams and inspect, modify, or redirect them are illegal in most parts of the world: "yes,

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:42:15 -0800 > > As you know, as long as people rely on their ISPs for resolution > services, DNSSEC isn't going to help. Where things get really offensive > if when the ISPs _require_ customers (through port 53 blocking, T-Mobile > Hotspot, I'm lo

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Vixie
of its technical suckitude i'm working on DNSSEC.) <http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302> lays out this case. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-12 Thread Paul Vixie
wildcard. You were right, and I listened. Probably I forgot to thank you until now. Thanks. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Vixie
way based on the identity of the querier. perhaps my language in the ACM Queue article was imprecise ("delivering facts rather than policy") and i should have stuck with the longer formulation ("incoherent responses crafted based on the identity of the querier rather than on the authoritative data"). -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Gmail Down?

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Vixie
webmail systems should take a look. <http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/prayer/> is the home page. though i found it in freebsd . -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Vixie
note, i went off-topic in my previous note, and i'll be answering florian on namedroppers@ since it's not operational. chris's note was operational: > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:18:11 -0400 > From: Christopher Morrow > > awesome, how does that work with devices in the f-root-anycast design? > (bo

Re: DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Vixie
r with associations open to millions of clients at the same time is actually no big deal. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-04 Thread Paul Vixie
his solutions for it. and i think openbsd may have had source port randomization first, since they do it in their kernel when you try to bind(2) to port 0. most kernels are still very predictable when they're assigning a UDP port to an outbound socket. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Vixie
re a lawsuit could recover some losses and firing someone usually won't. digital security is getting a lot of investor attention right now. i wonder if this will ever consolidate or if pandora's box is just broken for all time. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: White House net security paper

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Vixie
e infantry, or so i am told. this is rocket > science. to me "wisely" means backfilling 80% of what the Good Guys do that isn't rocket science. (most A's are not doing only what only A's can do.) -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: White House net security paper

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Vixie
Guys all know this -- the difference is that the Good Guys try not to think about this whereas the Bad Guys think about it all the time. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: White House net security paper

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Vixie
C's, if wisely deployed, could bridge that gap. the key to all this is therefore not really "neurons" but rather "wiselyness". i promise to, um, mention this, or maybe more, in my nanog-philly keynote. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Colo on the West Coast

2009-05-26 Thread Paul Vixie
Pshem Kowalczyk writes: > (answers can be off-list) See <http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/>. (updates still welcomed, btw.) -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Why choose 120 volts?

2009-05-26 Thread Paul Vixie
20V but for $50 NRC it can be replaced with an LCD. everything else that's still worth plugging in (that is, having a power/heat cost per performance better than that of a blow dryer) doesn't care what voltage it lives on. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: Slightly OT: Calculating HVAC requirements for server rooms

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Vixie
, software, and legal people, many of whom have never questioned their own assumptions nor those of their certification boards, state and county governments, or teachers/mentors. they don't have to live with the results ... but i do ... thus my willingness to dive deep.) YMMV. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: integrated KVMoIP and serial console terminal server

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Vixie
ftp.isc.org/isc/rtty/ \ ftp://gatekeeper.research.compaq.com/pub/misc/vixie/ since the ftp server mentioned here in 1996 http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1996-08/msg00223.html is dead. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Vixie
meone starting from scratch, and when starting an IXP from scratch, a shared subnet would be just crazy talk. -- Paul Vixie

Re: IXP

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:17:11 -0400 > From: "Steven M. Bellovin" > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:58:24 + > bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > > i make the claim that simple, clean design and execution is > > best. even the security goofs will agree. > > "Even"? *Especially* -- o

Re: IXP

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:35:51 +0100 > From: Nick Hilliard > > ... i just don't care if people use L2 connectivity to get to an exchange > from a router somewhere else on their LAN. They have one mac address to > play around with, and if they start leaking mac addresses towards the > exchange

Re: IXP

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:09:00 + > From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com > > ... well... while there is a certain childlike obession with the > byzantine, rube-goldburg, lots of bells, knobs, whistles type > machines... for solid, predictable performance, simple clean >

Re: IXP

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
stephen, any idea why this hasn't hit the nanog mailing list yet? it's been hours, and things that others have sent on this thread has appeared. is it stuck in a mail queue? --paul re: > To: Deepak Jain > cc: Matthew Moyle-Croft , > Arnold Nipper , Paul Vi

Re: IXP

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
Nathan Ward writes: > On 18/04/2009, at 12:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> ... Q in Q is not how i'd build this... cisco and juniper both have >> hardware tunnelling capabilities that support this stuff... ... > > On Alcatel-Lucent 7x50 gear, VLAN IDs are only relevant to

Re: IXP

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: Paul Vixie > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:08:04 + > ... > i should answer something said earlier: yes there's only 14 bits of tag and > yes 2**14 is 4096. in the sparsest and most wasteful allocation scheme, > tags would be assigned 7:7 so there'd be a ma

www.vix.com/personalcolo (Re: US west coast personal colo)

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Vixie
ersonal server on the west coast, and it seems like > the economy has taken out most of the old personal colo offers. Even the > old web page on www.vix.com/personalcolo is gone. > > > -- Paul Vixie

Re: IXP

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Vixie
Arnold Nipper writes: > On 18.04.2009 00:04 Paul Vixie wrote > >> ... has anybody ever run out of 1Q tags in an IXP context? > > Why? You only need 1 ;-) really? 1? at PAIX we started with three, two unicast (wrongheadedness) and one multicast, then added another unicast

Re: IXP

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Vixie
> > the 300-peer IXP's i've been associated with weren't quite full mesh > > in terms of who actually wanted to peer with whom, so, no. > > Much depends on your definition of "quite". Would 30% qualify? 30% would be an over-the-top success. has anybody ever run out of 1Q tags in an IXP context?

Re: IXP - PNI

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Vixie
> The construct also doesn't scale well for multicast traffic exchange if > there's a significant number of multicast peers even though the traffic > might be low for individual source ASNs. On the other hand, if the IXP > doesn't use IGMP/MLD snooping capable switches, then I suppose it doesn't >

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