Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-16 Thread Barry Greene
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> It also sounds like RIPE did a big screw you to the Dutch police for >> trying to interfere. > > no, they caved. > No, they did not "cave." Court orders through the Dutch courts are integrated in their processes. It was coordinated with RIPE

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-16 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 16/08/2012 01:07, Randy Bush wrote: > ripe caved at the time. yes it was a yank court order propagated as a > dutch police order. in ljubljana, ncc staff said that they regretted > caving, had not really needed to do so, it was a mistake that they would > not repeat. present company excluded,

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
> However, for network sanitation purposes, I'll admit some surprise > that the DNSchanger blocks have been reused so quickly. i conject sets a precedent for quick grab and sell, well rent. those dnschanger folk were bad guys, so no one should have sympathy for them. first they came for ... [h

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread David Conrad
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Approx 2 months later after taking legal advice, the NCC formed the view > that the police and the prosecutor had no legal basis for making the > request and they consequently unlocked the objects. With the end result that someone gets some rea

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
ripe caved at the time. yes it was a yank court order propagated as a dutch police order. in ljubljana, ncc staff said that they regretted caving, had not really needed to do so, it was a mistake that they would not repeat. present company excluded, we all make mistakes. randy

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 15/08/2012 22:34, Randy Bush wrote: > at the time, ripe caved to the court order. took some weeks before they > woke up. now a lot of noise, lawyers, and whitewash. whoa, wait up there, you cocky youngster. It wasn't a court order; it was a police order consequent to a request for internatio

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Grant Ridder
Gotcha On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > > Caved? How so? > > at the time, ripe caved to the court order. took some weeks before they > woke up. now a lot of noise, lawyers, and whitewash. > > randy >

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
> Caved? How so? at the time, ripe caved to the court order. took some weeks before they woke up. now a lot of noise, lawyers, and whitewash. randy

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Grant Ridder
Caved? How so? It looks like RIPE is ignoring the court order to keep the blocks locked. Unless i am misunderstanding it. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > > It also sounds like RIPE did a big screw you to the Dutch police for > > trying to interfere. > > no, they caved. >

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
> It also sounds like RIPE did a big screw you to the Dutch police for > trying to interfere. no, they caved.

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:51:32 -0400, Randy Whitney said: > Perhaps it should not have been re-allocated at all, rather than cause > the unsuspecting allocatee trouble they would not have seen from > clean(er) space. "unsuspecting"??!? You want a clean prefix, get some IPv6 space instead. Anybody

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/15/12 10:24 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:01:15AM -0700, joel jaeggli wrote: Remediation of whatever wrong with a given prefix is an active activity, it's not likely to go away unless the prefix is advertised. Actually, that's not true on two fron

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:01:15AM -0700, joel jaeggli wrote: > Remediation of whatever wrong with a given prefix is an active activity, > it's not likely to go away unless the prefix is advertised. Actually, that's not true on two fronts. From a business relationship front

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Randy Whitney
On 8/15/2012 11:36 AM, TJ wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:46:52AM +0100, Stephen Wilcox wrote: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/clarification-on-reallocated-ipv4-address-space-related-to-dutch-police-

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread TJ
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:46:52AM +0100, Stephen > Wilcox wrote: > > > https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/clarification-on-reallocated-ipv4-address-space-related-to-dutch-police-order > > From the article: >

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/15/12 6:55 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: While I understand that in the face of IPv4 exhaustion long quarantine periods are probably no longer a good idea, I think 6 weeks is shockingly short. I also think to blanket apply the quarantine is a little short sighted, there are cases that need a long

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:46:52AM +0100, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/clarification-on-reallocated-ipv4-address-space-related-to-dutch-police-order From the article: ] The address space was quarantined for six weeks before being re

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Grant Ridder
>From the little blurb on the RIPE site, it sounds like the Dutch police are making threats (taking over administration) that they can't legally keep. It also sounds like RIPE did a big screw you to the Dutch police for trying to interfere. -Grant On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Stephen Wilcox

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-08-15 Thread Stephen Wilcox
FYI RIPE reallocated these blocks. Whilst I understand they didn't want the court order, this seems a bit silly, doesn't that now make the machines residing in these blocks special - even if the owners arent miscreants, it makes them a viable target. https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-13 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 7, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Seth Mattinen" > >>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said: The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media interest. >>> >>> One wonders why it's so hard to get

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-07 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Seth Mattinen" > > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said: > >> The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media > >> interest. > > > > One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it > > would be *helpful*. DNS

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Andrew Fried
The subnets will probably be held until the conclusion of the criminal trials. After that, the addresses may be held back from assignment for a while (e.g. a year), but eventually they'll get reassigned. Andrew Fried andrew.fr...@gmail.com On 7/6/12 4:45 PM, Roy wrote: > On 7/6/2012 1:15 PM, An

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Nick Semenkovich
> > We've been doing this for subscribers (including free community ones) > since we got the sinkhole IPs from Andrew @ SIE/MAAWG. > At least now, the the ranges are publicly outlined in http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911/DNS-changer-malware.pdf 85.255.112.0 through 85.2

RE: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
; To: 'nanog@nanog.org' > Subject: RE: DNS Changer items > > We verified one a while back, who had already had the problem fixed when > the FBI sent us the physical mail. Concidering number of internet customers > in the US vs our internet customers with known number of US subsri

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Roy
On 7/6/2012 1:15 PM, Andrew Fried wrote: Cameron, That idea had been brought up. Also discussed was short durations of random blackouts of dns resolution to impress upon the infected users that they needed to take action. Unfortunately, taking either of those actions would have exceeded the au

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Andrew Fried
think having the ISC DNS changer sinkhole servers return the DCWG > check page IP for all queries would be a good final act. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Andrew Fried [mailto:andrew.fr...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:16 AM >> To: Cameron

RE: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
> -Original Message- > From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:07 AM > To: Cameron Byrne > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: DNS Changer items > > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:56 -0700, Cameron Byrne sa

RE: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
g.org > Subject: Re: DNS Changer items > > The DNS redirection began on November 8, 2011. The servers were > instrumented to capture a very small portion of the dns data (source ip and > port only) so that reports of infected users could be sent to the ISPs via > reportin

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Roy
On 7/6/2012 11:06 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:56 -0700, Cameron Byrne said: So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been helpful to have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse Not all DNS lookups are for HTTP. If you turn the

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Andrew Fried
The DNS redirection began on November 8, 2011. The servers were instrumented to capture a very small portion of the dns data (source ip and port only) so that reports of infected users could be sent to the ISPs via reporting organizations like Shadowserver. Some ISPs did create walled gardens. S

RE: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Eric J Esslinger
From: Merike Kaeo [mailto:k...@merike.com] > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 1:06 PM > To: Cameron Byrne > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: DNS Changer items > > > The ISPs who have been proactive in mitigating and > redirecting have been/are doing this. (global reach here) > &g

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:56 -0700, Cameron Byrne said: > So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been helpful to > have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse Not all DNS lookups are for HTTP. pgpBaEoKfFXQ1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Merike Kaeo
The ISPs who have been proactive in mitigating and redirecting have been/are doing this. (global reach here) The court ordered DNS servers have been up since Nov 9th and lots of outreach donethe intent was a graceful ramp down. Sadly, the state of folks helping with overall malware cleanu

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Roy
On 7/6/2012 10:44 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said: The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media interest. One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it would be *helpful*. DNS Changer gets traction l

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Cameron Byrne
So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been helpful to have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse saying "hey, since you use this server, you are broken, go here to get fixed" Seems that would have been a more graceful ramp down. CB

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/6/12 10:44 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said: >> The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media >> interest. > > One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it > would be *helpful*. DNS Changer gets t

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said: > The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media > interest. One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it would be *helpful*. DNS Changer gets traction like 3 days before the drop dead date, IPv6 gets on t

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > > > A) The DNS changer working group site http://www.dns-ok.us seems to be > > down for the clean people anyway. (Down for everyone agrees with me). > > Works via IPv6. (I suspect all the media attention you referenced

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Andrew Fried
The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media interest. We're trying to tweak it to handle the 50,000 or so simultaneous connections. Andy Andrew Fried andrew.fr...@gmail.com On 7/6/12 12:34 PM, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > A) The DNS changer working group site http://www.dns-ok

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jul 6, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > A) The DNS changer working group site http://www.dns-ok.us seems to be down > for the clean people anyway. (Down for everyone agrees with me). Works via IPv6. (I suspect all the media attention you referenced may be causing some load issu

DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Eric J Esslinger
A) The DNS changer working group site http://www.dns-ok.us seems to be down for the clean people anyway. (Down for everyone agrees with me). B) Fox, CNN, and MSNBC have apparantly all run stories in the last couple of hours that essentially ended with 'Call your ISP if you have any questions' (g