Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2018-02-01 Thread Scott Christopher
Scott Weeks wrote: > --- s...@xopher.net wrote: > From: Scott Christopher > > I think the solution is legislation + regulations. > - > > For sure dude, because, you know, they do such a > great job of all the other stuff they touch! > > scott > > ps. NOT! I

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-07-03 Thread John Curran
On 3 Jul 2017, at 10:18 AM, Randy Bush mailto:ra...@psg.com>> wrote: Only if you sign the RSA and give up certain legal rights to your legacy blocks/property. the word 'certain' is not apt given that the LRSA Ts&Cs may be arbitrarily changed by ARIN Randy - Not quite arbitrarily - ARIN can cha

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-07-03 Thread John Curran
On 2 Jul 2017, at 2:22 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: > > On 7/2/17 1:28 PM, John Curran wrote: >> Note that ARIN does provide RPKI services for legacy blocks, but it is true >> that we >> require more legalisms than other RIRs… You can caulk this up to the >> abundance >> of legacy resources of qu

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
> Only if you sign the RSA and give up certain legal rights to your legacy > blocks/property. the word 'certain' is not apt given that the LRSA Ts&Cs may be arbitrarily changed by ARIN

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-07-02 Thread Bryan Fields
On 7/2/17 1:28 PM, John Curran wrote: > Note that ARIN does provide RPKI services for legacy blocks, but it is true > that we > require more legalisms than other RIRs… You can caulk this up to the > abundance > of legacy resources of questionable provenance in this region, to the > colorful U

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-07-02 Thread John Curran
On 6 Jun 2017, at 9:25 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: > > On 6/6/17 9:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> Getting to that stage requires several companies to simultaneously >> say "we will no longer accept as valid mechanisms to verify >> routes announcements. You need to use X or else we won't accept >> th

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- s...@xopher.net wrote: From: Scott Christopher I think the solution is legislation + regulations. - For sure dude, because, you know, they do such a great job of all the other stuff they touch! scott ps. NOT!

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-07 Thread Robert L Mathews
On 6/6/17 6:14 AM, Scott Christopher wrote: > Or one could register aсme.com For what it's worth, that domain name (with a Cyrillic character 0441 replacing the "c" in "acme") wouldn't be allowed based on this: https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/idn/idn-p

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-07 Thread Scott Christopher
Mark Andrews wrote: > but we do have the tech to do this. I wholeheartedly agree. > All it takes is a couple of transit providers to no longer accept > word-of-mouth and > the world will transition overnight. This is the hard part. It seems trivial - being probably only a handful of transit

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1496816542.3628250.1001312328.70df4...@webmail.messagingengine.com> , Scott Christopher writes: > Mark Andrews wrote: > > > but we do have the tech to do this. > > I wholeheartedly agree. > > > All it takes is a couple of transit providers to no longer accept word-of-m > outh and >

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <2541cadf-4a76-b172-b395-0822f1889...@bryanfields.net>, Bryan Fields writes: > On 6/6/17 9:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Getting to that stage requires several companies to simultaneously > > say "we will no longer accept as valid mechanisms to verify > > routes announcements. You n

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/6/17 9:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > Getting to that stage requires several companies to simultaneously > say "we will no longer accept as valid mechanisms to verify > routes announcements. You need to use X or else we won't accept > the announcement". Yes, this requires guts to do. And wha

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message gmail.com>, Christopher Morrow writes: > > > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > Now we could continue discussing how easy it is to hijack addresses > > > of we could spend the time addressing the pro

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Christopher Morrow writes: > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > Now we could continue discussing how easy it is to hijack addresses > > of we could spend the time addressing the problem. All it takes is > > a couple of transit providers to no longer accept

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > Now we could continue discussing how easy it is to hijack addresses > of we could spend the time addressing the problem. All it takes is > a couple of transit providers to no longer accept word-of-mouth and > the world will transition overnig

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1496754899.2014592.1000384072.3e553...@webmail.messagingengine.com>, Scott Christopher writes: > Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > > 2. Create a domain called acme-corp.com and a user called peering > > Or one could register aсme.com > > (If the reader can't tell the difference between ac

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Scott Christopher
Hank Nussbacher wrote: > 2. Create a domain called acme-corp.com and a user called peering Or one could register aсme.com (If the reader can't tell the difference between acme.com and aсme.com , the reader is using one of the multitude of email clients and/or fonts that presents Unicode poorly

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: (I think this is really Ron and Bill chatting, but some of the linkage got lost on the tubes) > > > > I've read article after article after article bemoanging the fact that > >> "BGP isn't secure", > > > > They're talking about a different p

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On 06/06/2017 03:20, William Herrin wrote: Ronald, Here is how I would do it: 1. As you noted in your first email in this thread, find an abandoned ASN, lets call it AS12345, with a POC of supp...@acme.com 2. Create a domain called acme-corp.com and a user called peering 3. Contact an IX, pre

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:04:54 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" said: > So you're saying that whichever criminal is behind this stuff, that he > maybe could have pulled it all off for the astounding and impressive > sum of zero dollars and zero cents ($0.00) ? > > (Well, I guess that's not quite accurat

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message William Herrin wrote: >You actually got lost a couple steps back. > >First, you want to control the POC emails for the IP addresses. Controlling >just the POC emails for the AS number won't do you any good. Ummm... in this case there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that the

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message Christopher Morrow wrote: >most times i've seen isp DIA links bgp was 'free' or had been.. > >> talking about the cost of adding an upstream BGP session. > >ok. so either free or some up-charge by the isp. Wait a minute. I just wanna make sure that I am getting this. So you're say

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > So, I guess then, if you're clever, you look and see who the ASN you've > just successfully hijacked has historically peered with, and then you > somehow arrange to send route announcements to those guys, right? > (I'm talking about AS2

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message Christopher Morrow wrote: >that doesn't seem to be what's happening in ron's example though... > >it looks, to me, like the example ron has is more a case of: > 1) register contacts for lost asn (AS34991) > 2) setup equipment/etc at an IX (bulgaria-ix it seems, at least) with >anot

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > Chris, > > I didn’t research Ron’s specific example. I was speaking in generalities. > I’m assuming any BGP hijacker already has two or more DIA connections. It > only costs $100 to add BGP peering to that setup. Yes, they will need an > ASN.

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Mel Beckman
Chris, I didn’t research Ron’s specific example. I was speaking in generalities. I’m assuming any BGP hijacker already has two or more DIA connections. It only costs $100 to add BGP peering to that setup. Yes, they will need an ASN. I was only talking about the cost of adding an upstream BGP se

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: > One way is for the hijacker to simply peer with himself. The hijacker has > an existing peering arrangement with, say, AT&T. He then tells AT&T that he > will be transit for AS advertising XYZ routes, by dint of a cheerfully > forged LOA. O

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Mel Beckman
One way is for the hijacker to simply peer with himself. The hijacker has an existing peering arrangement with, say, AT&T. He then tells AT&T that he will be transit for AS advertising XYZ routes, by dint of a cheerfully forged LOA. Once filters have been updated, the hijacker advertises the

IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
The more I know, the less I understand. Maybe some of you kind folks can help. Please explain for me the following scenario, and how this all actually works in practice. Let's say that you're a malevolent Bad Actor and all you want to do is to get hold of some ASN that nobody is watching too cl