Re: bad announcement taxonomy

2015-11-18 Thread Stefan Fouant
ps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident He can thank me later 😜 Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ENT, JNCI m (703) 625-6243

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Re: To CCIEs and JNCIEs

2013-10-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
Seriously... Those cert monkeys think they know everything ;) Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ENT, JNCI m (703) 625-6243 On Oct 11, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> Please relay to your CCIE/JNCIE friends, I am giving out >> name@theccie.comand n...@jncie.com em

Re: Attack on UDP 101

2012-07-21 Thread Stefan Fouant
Can you give us more information? What do you mean it is causing Layer 3 loops? Stefan Fouant Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint! - Reply message - From: "Shahab Vahabzadeh" Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 10:50 am Subject: Attack on UDP 101 To: Hi there, Does any bod

Re: US withdraws IANA RFP, ‘no suitable responses’

2012-03-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
Was waiting for a response from Eric and without fail he comes through in record time... :-b Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate Sent from my iPad On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote

Re: community strings for Reliance Globalcom

2012-01-13 Thread Stefan Fouant
I could be wrong, but I think OP was requesting for BGP communities. I don't think he was asking for their SNMP community strings - I've never heard of a situation where a provider would allow their customers to poll their routers via SNMP. Or did I miss something? Stefan Fouant

Re: community strings for Reliance Globalcom

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
Not sure how up to date this is, but I believe this is what you are looking for: http://www.onesc.net/communities/as15412/ Cheers, Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate Sent from my iPad On Jan 12, 2012, at

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Stefan Fouant
inefficiencies. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate

Re: Random five character string added to URLs?

2011-11-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
clients, not tp the server. Also, IIRC, the LOIC DoS tool had this ability to create random strings in the URL, and I believe it did so with 5 characters. Might want to do a packet trace and identify if this is coming from LOIC. Regards, Stefan Fouant Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks GPG Key

Re: Outsourcing DDOS

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan Fouant
On 10/24/2011 3:53 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Stefan Fouant but... often the cost of scrubbing includes the cost of transit to/from the remote provider, which is why 'cheapest' only counts for an entire process, NOT for 'lookie, I bou

Re: Outsourcing DDOS

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan Fouant
offering up cloud-based services). Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate

Re: Juniper DOS/Blackhole question

2011-10-22 Thread Stefan Fouant
ld be able to handle a 750Mbps / 1.5 Mpps DoS pretty easy... HTHs. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate Sent from my iPad On Oct 22, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Considered j-nsp, but this ju

Re: Outsourcing DDOS

2011-10-22 Thread Stefan Fouant
ray hairs... Let me know if you're interested in the slides... Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate On 10/20/2011 4:43 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 09:13 19/10/2011 -0400, samuel.cunning...@wellsfargo.

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
Well considering that native multicast isn't enabled end to end Internet wide, and class E address space isn't used, it's more like half your IPv4 Internet goes one way, and ~38% goes the other way... :-b Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, J

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
, we selected IS-IS largely due to the fact that it supported MPLS Traffic Engineering extensions before comparable support was available in OSPF, and the main reason for this was due to the fact that IS-IS was TLV based. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-M, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
book "OSPF and IS-IS: Choosing an IGP for Large-Scale Networks" by Jeff Doyle. I can't speak highly enough of this book... Stefan Fouant JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-M, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks http://www.shortestpathfirst.net http://www.twitter.com/sfouant

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
less of an issue over the last few years however... Nonetheless, if I was building a greenfield network today, I would personally go with IS-IS, but that is largely because of my many years working with the protocol... Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Ju

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
IS-IS is decoupled from IP making it less vulnerable to attacks. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks http://www.shortestpathfirst.net http://www.twitter.com/sfouant Sent from my iPad On Aug 11, 2011, at 8:57 AM, CJ wrote: > Hey all, > Is the

Re: network issue help

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Fouant
Sorry, couldnt help it... that was my Asperger's kicking in... Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks http://www.shortestpathfirst.net http://www.twitter.com/sfouant Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Christopher Morrow

Re: network issue help

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Fouant
Is there an acronym for RTFM when there are a volume of manuals that need to be read? Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks http://www.shortestpathfirst.net http://www.twitter.com/sfouant Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Deric Kwok

Re: I'm missing 2 bytes (GRE implementation)

2011-08-09 Thread Stefan Fouant
Everything from checksums, keys, and sequence numbers is optional. The only required fields IIRC amount to 2 bytes of overhead. Sounds like they both interpret what should be included in the GRE header slightly differently. Stefan Fouant GPG Key ID: 0xB4C956EC Sent from my HTC EVO

Re: DNS DoS ???

2011-07-29 Thread Stefan Fouant
a sure sign this is related to what others have seen... Sorry for the top post, I'm on my iPad. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks http://www.shortestpathfirst.net http://www.twitter.com/sfouant Sent from my iPad On Jul 29, 2011, at 2:

RE: Verisign Internet Defence Network

2011-06-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
hese latencies are generally acceptable when a site is under attack, but not desired under normal circumstances. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M #513, JNCIE-ER #70, JNCI GPG Key ID: 0xB4C956EC

RE: VeriSign Internet Defense Network

2011-05-31 Thread Stefan Fouant
for some reason we could never convince the marketing folks to do just that... Agreed though, it is super-easy to use and competitively priced. Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M #513, JNCIE-ER #70, JNCI GPG Key ID: 0xB4C956EC

RE: VeriSign Internet Defense Network

2011-05-31 Thread Stefan Fouant
adjustment, but serves to provide a buttressed > front-end IP that can restore service "instantly" [faster than getting > someone on the phone to coordinate the change, etc]. Heck, if it's good enough for fast-flux, it's good enough for me ;) Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M #513, JNCIE-ER #70, JNCI GPG Key ID: 0xB4C956EC

RE: Verisign Internet Defence Network

2011-05-30 Thread Stefan Fouant
e sense than trying to deal with heterogeneous offerings from many disparate providers, much less having to open tickets with each provider, having to deal with typical response times, etc. In my experience, reducing the number of cogs usually results in dramatically lower mitigation times, wh

RE: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

2011-05-18 Thread Stefan Fouant
ces/application-acceleration/wxc- series/ http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5680/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html Stefan Fouant

RE: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-02 Thread Stefan Fouant
23.115.0/24 Most of those are for Verisign's DNS resolution services. Definitely nothing to be suspicious about here. Move along. These aren't the droids you are looking for. Stefan Fouant

RE: Multitenant FWs

2011-05-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
ting folks... oh, wait, 1 customer isn't really enough to demonstrate how well it isolates after all I guess ;) > > primary drivers behind our decision to utilize the NS-5400 for > Verizon's > > NBFW (you remember that place right Chris, heh') > > i do, occasionally via the twitching :) Hehe... Stefan Fouant

RE: Multitenant FWs

2011-05-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
can limit the amount of CPU, Sessions, Policies, MIPs and DIPs (used for NAT), and other user defined objects such as address book entries, etc. that each VSYS can avail. This was one of the primary drivers behind our decision to utilize the NS-5400 for Verizon's NBFW (you remember that place right Chris, heh') Stefan Fouant

RE: Multitenant FWs

2011-05-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
o offer such an offering to more than one customer using such a device. Stefan Fouant

RE: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Fouant [mailto:sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:58 PM > To: 'harbor235'; 'NANOG list' > Subject: RE: riverbed steelhead > > I've had generally good experiences w/ Riverbe

RE: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Stefan Fouant
t/Benefit analysis, but most of the ROI calculators show a return after as little as just a few months. Stefan Fouant

RE: IPV6 Training Books

2011-04-04 Thread Stefan Fouant
standing IPv6 addressing formats, subnetting, etc. Either one of those should be able to answer most of your questions. Stefan Fouant

RE: State of QoS peering in Nanog

2011-04-03 Thread Stefan Fouant
tolerant applications when setting buffer sizes to a temporal value rather than based on a _fixed_ number of packets. Stefan Fouant

RE: State of QoS peering in Nanog

2011-04-03 Thread Stefan Fouant
s you are using above based on some broad analysis or study of multiple providers, or are you deriving these numbers likewise you're your own personal observations? Thanks, Stefan Fouant

Re: as-set members

2011-04-02 Thread Stefan Fouant
Hi Bogdan, If you are on Cisco, you can accomplish this using the attribute-map argument to the as-set statement. On Juniper, this is fairly easy to accomplish with routing policy (learning RegEx will make your life easier). HTHs. Stefan (sorry for the top post, I'm on my mobile...) - Re

RE: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking??

2011-03-31 Thread Stefan Fouant
o honestly say > "IPv6 is in da > house!" every time the person formerly known as Owen walked into the > room at ARIN meetings. :D +1 | That, or "The evangelist formerly known as Owen..." :p Stefan Fouant

RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Stefan Fouant
le and sustained amount of legal pressure by selling over a quarter million pre-registrations at $75 each, generating over $20M in revenue... Stefan Fouant

RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Stefan Fouant
operating costs and open the industry to more regulation. I can't seem to find anyone that would benefit from this, with the exception of Stuart and ICM's shareholders. Stefan Fouant

RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Stefan Fouant
rguments then. IMHO this was snake oil 15 years ago, and it is > even > more snake oil now. And I'm afraid we'll be seeing a whole heckuva lot more of this snake oil once ICANN finalizes the Generic TLD process in June: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382233,00.asp Stefan Fouant

ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-21 Thread Stefan Fouant
are amongst us as we've now given would-be registrars the right to print money and companies are forced to purchase useless domain names in order to protect their trademarks, prevent squatting, etc. When will sanity prevail? Stefan Fouant

RE: CSI New York fake IPv6

2011-03-20 Thread Stefan Fouant
ing to) is an awesome thing in my opinion. > > > Makes a good change from a 5 octet IP number I remember them using in > one episode revolving around an adult webcam website. I remember seeing that show. I think they had Jim Fleming on as a consultant. ;> Stefan Fouant

RE: Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

2010-12-28 Thread Stefan Fouant
x27;t > do anything until they authenticate through the controller's web GUI. > They we have access lists to control what they can do while on the > wireless. James, Just out of curiosity, how does this solution prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to the system by the aforementioned MAC spoofing technique? Stefan Fouant

RE: Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

2010-12-28 Thread Stefan Fouant
poof (simply clone the MAC of an authenticated user and you are clear for takeoff)... Why incur the overhead of managing credentials with something that can so easily circumvented. Leave things wide open on a sandboxed subnet with the usual protections (rate limits, blocked ports), IMO is the easiest approach... Stefan Fouant

RE: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
ok a while back: http://www.shortestpathfirst.net/2009/11/30/book-review-mpls-aplications/ This book is awesome. You won't regret buying it. Stefan Fouant > -Original Message- > From: Michael Helmeste [mailto:mhelm...@uvic.ca] > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:49

RE: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-15 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Mike. [mailto:the.li...@mgm51.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 3:29 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation. > > On 12/15/2010 at 10:25 AM Bryan Irvine wrote: > | > |Anyone know the trustworthy-ness of

RE: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-15 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: mikea [mailto:mi...@mikea.ath.cx] > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:28 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation. > > > > > Someone is confusing FBI with NSA, methinks. And yes, if this is > > the kind of th

RE: LOIC tool used in the "Anonymous" attacks

2010-12-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@multicasttech.com] > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:20 AM > To: North American Network Operators Group > Subject: LOIC tool used in the "Anonymous" attacks > > Interesting analysis of the 3 "LOIC" tool variants used in the >

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread Stefan Fouant
The one thing I found interesting was the InfoSecIsland poll where the majority of Security Practitioners polled actually supported the Jester's methods... Stefan Fouant Sorry for the top post. Sent from my iPad On Nov 28, 2010, at 9:29 PM, "andrew.wallace" wrote: > Hi N

Re:

2010-11-26 Thread Stefan Fouant
Webmetrics provides such a service (full disclosure I used to work for these guys)... http://www.webmetrics.com/ Stefan Fouant Sent from my iPad On Nov 26, 2010, at 12:14 PM, "Michael Ruiz" wrote: > Hey folks, > > > >I had a situation recently t

Re: How do I change my email?

2010-11-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
Go to the following URL -http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog At the bottom of the page you should see a section for subscription management. You should be able to change your settings there. Sorry for the top post. Sent from my iPad Stefan Fouant On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:07 AM

Re: AS path question.

2010-11-10 Thread Stefan Fouant
Path prepending is used to influence the secondary providers. Stefan Fouant My apologies for the top post. Sent from my iPad On Nov 10, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Stefan Fouant wrote: >>> -Original Message- > >> >> IMO, a combina

RE: AS path question.

2010-11-10 Thread Stefan Fouant
tter protections in IOS preventing this and other associated "buffer overflow" issues, but at the time there were no such protections. The very next day we received a patched IOS from Cisco which contained the maxas-limit commands. Stefan Fouant

RE: AS path question.

2010-11-10 Thread Stefan Fouant
ovider. IMO, a combination of both community tagging to influence localpref coupled with AS Path prepending on the secondary link is the best approach, and seems to accommodate both steady state as well as failure scenarios properly. Stefan Fouant

RE: networking podcasts

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Fouant
ies called J-Net Perspectives and they had decent coverage of topics like High Availability, Multicast VPNs, and VPLS to name a few with the likes of Pedro Marques, Lenny Giuliano, and some other Juniper notables. See the URL below for the iTunes links... http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/j-net-perspectives/id279754930 Stefan Fouant

RE: networking podcasts

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Fouant
For you Juniper and Arbor wonks out there, you can find some decent podcasts on iTunes... I can't remember the name of the Juniper Podcast but you should be able to find it on iTunes without much effort... I believe the Arbor one is called "Security to the Core". Stefan Fouant

RE: DDoS mitigation services from SPs

2010-04-28 Thread Stefan Fouant
talking to the Verisign folks as they really seem to be attracting all the top talent right now - I'd be willing to bet their offering is the one that others will eventually emulate. Cheers, Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIEx2 www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: RIRs are More Interested in Selling NEW than Pre-Owned?

2010-04-08 Thread Stefan Fouant
r his address from the list. But just to be safe, should probably filter anything with a reference to ipv3, ipv5, ipv7, ipv8, and any other cockamamie address schemes... ;) Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIEx2 www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: As the "NANOG Community" Moves to IPv6...

2010-04-06 Thread Stefan Fouant
Name: ipv3.com Registered at http://www.dynadot.com Registrant: Jim Fleming 1163 E. Ogden Ave. 705-205 Naperville, IL 60563 United States Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIEx2 www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

Re: Tidbits & the "NANOG Community"

2010-04-04 Thread Stefan Fouant
Sounds like this guy could benefit from some carpeting and a few Roombas in his Data Center ;) Stefan Fouant --Original Message-- From: Randy Bush To: IPv3.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Tidbits & the "NANOG Community" Sent: Apr 4, 2010 6:23 AM Sent from my Ve

RE: Useful URL for network operators

2010-03-30 Thread Stefan Fouant
2:10, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > > nymshifting son of a . > > > > More stringent measures are required. > > > > > I second this. I want this guy gone. (The frog, not Larry) Hey now, I don't like this guys tactics either, but frog??? ;) Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: Disable IPv4 routing for routing-instance?

2010-03-30 Thread Stefan Fouant
r.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp But while we are on the topic, you can disable the IPv4 routing for a VRF with the following: 'set routing-instances protocols isis no-ipv4-routing' Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: anti-ddos test solutions ?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Fouant
t wouldn't be a DDoS, but could certainly lead to DOS. If you can get your hands on a PCAP from a previous attack, you could also use something like Bit-Twist which will allow you to manipulate things like the destination IP and also the transmission rate, etc. Pretty useful tool to include

RE: anti-ddos test solutions ?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Fouant
27;re apt to experience some noise in that scenario too ;) Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: anti-ddos test solutions ?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Fouant
didn't warn you. This is *NOT* the box for DDoS testing. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

Re: Best VPN Appliance

2010-03-08 Thread Stefan Fouant
support for IPsec is absolutely there. HTHs. Stefan Fouant --Original Message-- From: Voll, Toivo To: Chris Campbell To: Dawood Iqbal Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Best VPN Appliance Sent: Mar 8, 2010 11:56 AM We're generally happy with our Juniper SA6500s, but they, and a lot o

RE: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
n approach - http://vijaygill.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/infrastructure-is-software/ That stuff is light years ahead of anything anybody is doing today (well, apart from maybe Vijay himself ;) ... but IMO it's where we need to start heading. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst

Re: Cymru Bogon Route Help

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
Can you give us a little more details around how you're trying to convert the BGP routes received into an ACL? While we're on the topic, I'd really love for the Team Cymru folks to turn their bogon list into a Flowspec feed ;) Sorry for the top post, I'm on m

RE: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
anything > but Google's DNS. Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste. Level 3's 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are excellent options for tracking. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-28 Thread Stefan Fouant
per interface? or > sessions setup/second? or remote-addresses tracked? or ? sessions setup/second = ddos mitigation fail ;) Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Stefan Fouant
ts a full range of Managed Objects and Mitigation Templates which can be applied to individual prefixes, etc. Sorry for the top post, I'm on my Blackberry. Stefan Fouant --Original Message-- From: Korten, Sean To: nanog@nanog.org To: tsa...@rackspace.com Subject: RE: DDoS mitigation

RE: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

2010-01-20 Thread Stefan Fouant
of the things they claim to be able to do - I was once a proponent of theirs until I really got under the hood, save yourself the headache and look at the other alternatives. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: 2009 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report available for download.

2010-01-20 Thread Stefan Fouant
think this would go a long way towards allowing companies to better quantify their risk-score and associated spend based on their associated industry. Otherwise, really good stuff. Thanks for sharing! Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Fouant
quot;. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122540813 Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: BGP testbed tools

2010-01-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
for lots of BGP scalability testing. I used it a lot back in my testing days at UU. Basically you just saved the contents of "show ip route" and you could replay that using the tool. Man I wish I saved that tool somewhere, it was incredibly valuable. You might be able find someone

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
ical if they'll go through with it... Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D > -Original Message- > From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: more ne

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
Ummm... there is some proprietary information I would have to remove first. Will NANOG accept a message to the forum with an attachment? If not I can put it up on my site. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D > -Original Message- > Fro

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
Precisely - I was saying that in order to add more point to your argument. I wasn't disagreeing with you :) Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D > -Original Message- > From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com > [mailto:christopher.mo

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
hop of the scrubbers. There are some providers who do auto-mitigation on behalf of the customer, but IMO this approach is asking for trouble. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
r cost than Arbor but can handled more. > > Do they? VerizonBusiness's solution was $3250US/month so ~$90USk over > 2yrs. Arbor, I think, for a TMS + collectors was +100k. Don't forget to factor in OpEx. This can often tilt the scales in favor of one vs. the other. Stefan Fo

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
their offering. If anyone is interested, I did pretty exhaustive research into the Service Provider marketplace last summer (before Verisign came out with their VIDN). I've got some slides which outline the costs, mitigation capacity, etc. of many different providers. The provider option isn&

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobb...@arbor.net] > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:03 AM > > On Jan 9, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > > Firewalls do have their place in DDoS mitigation scenarios, but if > used as > &g

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Stefan Fouant
quire surgical mitigation, not to mention a host of other attack vectors. Firewalls do have their place in DDoS mitigation scenarios, but if used as the "ultimate" solution you're asking for trouble. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:h...@efes.iucc.ac.il] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:02 AM > > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > > Almost all of the scalable DDoS mitigation architectures deployed in > > carriers or othe

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Stefan Fouant
perator to press the "big red button" to offramp and enable the mitigation. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Stefan Fouant
ploy the use of an offramp method. These devices perform a lot better when you can forward just the subset of the traffic through as opposed to all. It just a simple matter of using static routing / RTBH techniques / etc. to automate the offramp. Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Stefan Fouant
ering the question. I wonder if Stefan Fouant would offer some of > his experience with 'not arbor' vendor solutions to be used when other > techniques come up short? Interesting thread! And I'm happy to chime in - thanks Chris! I too would have to strongly agree with Rol

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
There have been several DNS based DDoS observed throughout the day targetting Ultra as well as a few other companies. They were first observed earlier in the morning on the East coast. --Original Message-- From: Richard A Steenbergen To: Shrdlu Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: UltraDNS Failure? S

RE: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
; traffic between multicast routers. I think OP meant that he only wants an integrity check of the control traffic, not confidentiality, hence the statement that he does not want to encrypt the control traffic. Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: port scanning from spoofed addresses

2009-12-03 Thread Stefan Fouant
es, it's the new norm... same as the old norm... I'm surprised they didn't try to upsell you on some type of managed DDoS solution... Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

Re: DNS query analyzer

2009-12-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
gards, Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.com --Original Message-- From: jul To: Joseph Jackson To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: DNS query analyzer Sent: Dec 2, 2009 12:47 AM Joseph Jackson wrote on 01/12/09 01:06: > Anyone know of a tool that can take a pcap file from wireshark that was us

RE: DNS query analyzer

2009-11-30 Thread Stefan Fouant
ain. I'm sure there are a few people who would find it highly useful and would work on it to add to its utility. Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: DNS query analyzer

2009-11-30 Thread Stefan Fouant
oment but you should be able to find it on the NLnet Labs site - http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/dns-analyzer/ HTHs. Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: Finding asymmetric path

2009-11-27 Thread Stefan Fouant
iders adopted BCP 38 this wouldn't be a problem, but that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon... I'd try to identify which providers the customer is connected to and take it from there... Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: Bandwidth Monitoring per AS

2009-11-16 Thread Stefan Fouant
estination AS traffic utilization. Depending on your price range, you might want to take a look at Arbor's Peakflow SP. There is some pretty top notch traffic and routing analysis tools in their package. Regards, Stefan Fouant GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: need your suggestion about switch

2009-11-07 Thread Stefan Fouant
om" and "independent" in the same sentence? More like guns for hire. I've rarely seen a test report they came out with that wasn't commissioned by a particular vendor with the testing done in such a way as to slant the results in their favor. Stefan Fouant GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

RE: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS

2009-11-07 Thread Stefan Fouant
heard a few and now I'd like to hear what others have to say. BTW, I realize this is a sensitive subject and I can understand why some of you might not want to respond on-list (security through obscurity eh' ;). To those of you who have taken the time to respond to me off-list, I appre

RE: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS

2009-11-07 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fwei...@bfk.de] > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:52 AM > To: Stefan Fouant > Cc: 'Jeffrey Lyon'; 'NANOG list' > Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS > > So

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