Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2011-02-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Neil Harris wrote: > The fact that the usable bandwidth resulting from ad-hoc mesh wiki would be > tiny compared to broadband connections doesn't mean this sort of thing isn't > worth trying: a few tens of kilobits a second is plenty for speech, and even > a few h

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2011-02-18 Thread Neil Harris
On 18/02/11 12:26, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: geographic location doesn't map to topology In LEO satellite constellations and mesh wireless it typically does. When bootstrapping a global mesh, one could use VPN tunnels over Internet to emul

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2011-02-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > geographic location doesn't map to topology In LEO satellite constellations and mesh wireless it typically does. When bootstrapping a global mesh, one could use VPN tunnels over Internet to emulate long-distance links initially. Eb

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Randy Bush wrote: except we have a history of it happening You mean the whole innertubes went down because some dewd haxx0red it? I believe that was the claim being made in so many words (maybe he was just trying to land that DARPA job). It's one thing for parts of the innertubes to go down,

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-11 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Mmaad Dooog wrote: Is anyone going to jump on the irony of the last two paragraphs? Having to use the excessively rigid, slow, static, boring expensive PSTN to fix the cool, fast, flexible cheap, cool, fun Internet? That'll work just fine, of course. Until, that is, one o

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-11 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:32:57AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html > > It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I agree about > the "simplicity of the routing system"..

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-10 Thread Randy Bush
>> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html >> >> It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I agree >> about the "simplicity of the routing system" > > I am very skeptical whenever I see claims of this nature "If I do X I > ca

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Bosworth
I'm right there with you. I'm pretty sure the Internet would have crashed and burned long ago from human error if this was the case. People typically unintentionally bungle things worse than when they mean to. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Steven Bellovin wrote: > >>

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Steven Bellovin wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I agree about the "simplicity of the routing system" I am very skeptical whenever I see claims of this nature "If I do

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On May 10, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Randy Bush wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html embarrassing but pretty much correct. a reporter did their homework. if i knew who it was, i would add them to my very small "willing to talk to" list. Pete

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Randy Bush
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html embarrassing but pretty much correct. a reporter did their homework. if i knew who it was, i would add them to my very small "willing to talk to" list. > It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't kn

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread todd glassey
On 5/9/2010 10:54 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: > On 5/9/2010 12:50, Larry Sheldon wrote: >> [The wonderful New And Improved Thunderbird deleted a response and the >> message I was responding to--I don't know how or why--seems to have to >> do with the arrival of new messages.] >> >> The message I was r

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/9/2010 12:50, Larry Sheldon wrote: > [The wonderful New And Improved Thunderbird deleted a response and the > message I was responding to--I don't know how or why--seems to have to > do with the arrival of new messages.] > > The message I was responding-to seemed to be a rant that the reason

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
[The wonderful New And Improved Thunderbird deleted a response and the message I was responding to--I don't know how or why--seems to have to do with the arrival of new messages.] The message I was responding-to seemed to be a rant that the reason Area Code changes are (were) a hassle was due to t

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:47:53PM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote: > It was discussed during the IPng days. I realize the scheme is old, I myself reinvented it around 1990. I guess give that the idea hasn't gone very far since kind answers my own question. > My view at the time -- and my view t

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > geographic location doesn't map to topology In orbital line of sight (LoS) constellations and wireless meshes, yes. Arguably there's a cost function over fiber laid as well, e.g. long-distance fiber runs typically follow a geodesic.

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Steven Bellovin
On May 9, 2010, at 12:30 47PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote: > >> And when I drive someplace, I do indeed go by the signs I see, which are >> not erected by a central authority, as I move along. (I don't have a >> route from here to Fairbank

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 05/09/2010 09:30 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote: > >> And when I drive someplace, I do indeed go by the signs I see, which are >> not erected by a central authority, as I move along. (I don't have a >> route from here to Fairbanks, Alas

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote: > And when I drive someplace, I do indeed go by the signs I see, which are > not erected by a central authority, as I move along. (I don't have a > route from here to Fairbanks, Alaska, but my MCA shows one from here to > Council Bluf

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/9/2010 08:32, Steven Bellovin wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html > > It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I > agree about the "simplicity of the routing system" I worry about the implications in the arti