Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Paul, Let's go back to the case and point: Amazon is claimed not to behave as a good Netizen.[*] In these circumstances we have to ask why the traditional system doesn't work. This is precisely the case when you want to ding someone's reputation. Your argument that many good application

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Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
When I hear "cloud services" I think "in the network" even though it appears all these cloud services perform their work at a data center as an outsourced service. Is there a vendor that makes a product that perform spam/malware filtering literally in the network, i.e. as a service provider, can I

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Vixie
eliot wrote: > Let's go back to the case and point: Amazon is claimed not to behave as a > good Netizen.[*] In these circumstances we have to ask why the traditional > system doesn't work. This is precisely the case when you want to ding > someone's reputation. Your argument that many good appli

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Paul Vixie wrote: my argument doesn't get that far, actually. i think there will be no outages because recipients of abuse won't feel that they can afford to toss out the good with the bad in this particular case. which is going to remind of me tom lehrer's quip, "feels like a christian scient

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I think would/should happen is that EC2 is never assumed to be a > legitimate source of email; and any EC2 instance that sends email will > instead be relaying through a non-EC2 mail server. Mail / spam seems to

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Frank Bulk - iNAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a vendor that makes a product that perform spam/malware filtering > literally in the network, i.e. as a service provider, can I provide spam > filtering for the enterprises in my customer base by adding a piec

Australian Co-Lo

2008-06-23 Thread Bernard Becker
Looking for recommendations for carrier neutral co-lo facility for Melbourne Australia. Our searches so far seem to turn up sites either on Telstra or Optus affiliated co-lo facilities. We need to be in a carrier neutral space with access to any of the major providers. Searching for co-lo space in

Re: Australian Co-Lo

2008-06-23 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = "Bernard Becker" ; > > Looking for recommendations for carrier neutral co-lo facility for Melbourne > Australia. Our searches so far seem to turn up sites either on Telstra or > Optus affiliated co-lo facilities. We need to be in a carrier neutral space > with access to any of the

RE: Australian Co-Lo

2008-06-23 Thread Skeeve Stevens
If it doesn't need to be Melbourne, there is a good selection in Sydney. The best being Equinix and Globalswitch ...Skeeve -- Skeeve Stevens, Managing Director eintellego Pty Ltd - The ISP Specialists [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.eintellego.net Phone: (+612) 8197 2760, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/06/22 06:17 PM Paul Vixie wrote: with EC2, it's game-over for the IP reputation industry Realistically speaking, did you not expect that to be inevitable? As access to the internet increases, the chances of SMTP scaling to prevent spam decreases. And as IP's become more numerous and

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 Jun 2008, at 17:17, Paul Vixie wrote: >> with EC2, it's game-over for the IP reputation industry, > I was discussing this on an e-commerce practitioners list earlier today, and > argued basically that, from an abuse

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:38:16 EDT, William Herrin said: > Concur. From an address-reputation perspective EC2 is no different > than, say, China. Connections from China start life much closer to my > filtering threshold that connections from Europe because a far lower > percentage of the connections

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Vixie
> > with EC2, it's game-over for the IP reputation industry > > Realistically speaking, did you not expect that to be inevitable? i didn't, no. when i unknowingly launched the IP reputation industry back in the mid 1990's, the risk i was managing was a spammer who planned to give away free T1 li

RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re:Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Just because something doesn't solve all your problems doesn't mean it has no value. Anything that can reduce the amount of inspection you have to do @ content, and filters out the gross cruft, buys you additional network and systems capacity, using what you have now (firewall, mail relay). This is

RE: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip addressreputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Barracuda, or you could build the exact same thing using OSS. Procmail, Spamassasin, ClamAV, and your choice of RBLs (or use karmashpere to custom roll a hybrid one). > -Original Message- > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 7:16 AM >

RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re:Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
You can easily make IP reputation scale to IPV6 using the APL RRTYPE. See RFC3123 > -Original Message- > From: Colin Alston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 8:18 AM > To: Paul Vixie > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reput

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Steven Champeon
on Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:24:43PM -0500, Al Iverson wrote: > I'm not going to pretend I manage inbound mail service for > thousands-to-millions of users (as most of the participants of other > lists like SPAM-L are fond of imagining themselves), but I know enough > about how IP reputation systems

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: When I hear "cloud services" I think "in the network" even though it appears all these cloud services perform their work at a data center as an outsourced service. Is there a vendor that makes a product that perform spam/malware filtering literally in the network, i.e.

RE: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Bulk
Interesting. I was more thinking of the Turntide approach which operates within the network stream than Mailchannels which appears to operate on the same server as the MTA, but in front of it. Frank -Original Message- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Bulk
Thanks. Even with TLS, the destination port (either 25 or 365) is well-known, right, as is the source IP? At the minimum RBLs could be used for that encrypted traffic. Frank -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:20 PM To: [EMAI

Re: smstools and CDMA

2008-06-23 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Kevin , On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Kevin Blackham wrote: And in my experience (many years back), a nokia handset would start draining its ups as soon as it got a full charge, requiring daily reseat of the supply cord. YMMV so test and retest. On 6/21/08, Phil Regnauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:28:04 EDT, Steven Champeon said: > Now, if the entire 'Net moved to a cloud computing model, I could agree > with Paul that this would be the end of IP reputation. But I'm only > aware of two such services (Amazon EC2 and Media Temple's > gridserver.com) in widespread use, so

Techniques for passive traffic capturing

2008-06-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello everyone, Over the past two years, there's been a trend toward doing more and more analysis and reporting based on passive traffic analysis. We started out using SPAN sessions to produce an extra copy of all of our transit links for these purposes. But the Cisco limits of two SPAN sessions

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Frank Bulk wrote: Thanks. Even with TLS, the destination port (either 25 or 365) is well-known, right, as is the source IP? And 587 though that's generally your customers, who are going authenticate. At the minimum RBLs could be used for that encrypted traffic. Yeah, given that that poi

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip addressreputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Ken Simpson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Frank Bulk - iNAME iname.com> wrote: > Is there a vendor that makes a product that perform spam/malware filtering > literally in the network, i.e. as a service provider, can I provide spam > filtering for the enterprises in my customer base by adding a piece o

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re:

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > One could argue that the "botnets for rent" business model is in more > widespread use than either EC2 or gridserver... > > I'm unclear whether that statement needs a smiley or not... i'd say that since EC2 won't be shut down when it's found out about, that you need a

Re: Techniques for passive traffic capturing

2008-06-23 Thread Nathan Ward
On 24/06/2008, at 8:32 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: I've been thinking about a move to a system based on optical taps of each of the links. I'd aggregate these links into something like a 3750 and use remote-span VLANs to pass the traffic onto servers that sniffing on their interface on that 3750.

Re: Australian Co-Lo

2008-06-23 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 24/06/08 01:04, Martin Barry wrote: > $quoted_author = "Bernard Becker" ; >> Looking for recommendations for carrier neutral co-lo facility for Melbourne >> Australia. Our searches so far seem to turn up sites either on Telstra or >> Optus affiliated co-lo facilities. We need to be in a carrier

RE: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Ken: Thanks for the info, but that still requires the domain owner to change their MX records. I was wondering if there was something that could literally be placed in the flow of traffic, like an FWSM in transparent mode. Frank -Original Message- From: Ken Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Right, port 587 would require SMTP authentication. I'm no routing expert, but can tens of thousands of /32s be excluded using BGP communities? I don't know if spammers are going to be using TLS in a big way soon, though I'll admit I've not measured. As long TLS usage is low, examining TCP port

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip addressreputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barracuda, or you could build the exact same thing using OSS. > > Procmail, Spamassasin, ClamAV, and your choice of RBLs (or use > karmashpere to custom roll a hybrid one). Hate to point out the obvious, but ... That is

APNIC dns glitch ?

2008-06-23 Thread Danny Thomas
I thought I'd sent this a couple of hours ago APNIC are aware of the problem and things have partially recovered though the arin and ripe name-servers still SERVFAIL the second run of our delegation-checking script this morning started complaining about our 203.in-addr zones and it seems there is

Re: Techniques for passive traffic capturing

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin Kadow
We started out with SPAN ports, then moved on to Netoptics taps. Lately we've been using a combination of Cisco Netflow (from remote routers), and native Argus flows (from local taps) where we need more details. Flows are useful to answer "What happened X minutes/hours/days ago?", and where you d

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip addressreputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Hate to point out the obvious, but ... That isnt "network gear" as such. > > It is an appliance that'll require repointing of MX records Please don't tell my test kit at home; Cisco WCCPv2 redirects TCP/25 as easy as it does TCP/80(*1). No MX

Happy 25th birthday for DNS

2008-06-23 Thread Hank Nussbacher
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0623 June 23, 1983: DNS Test Sets Stage for Internet Growth 1983: Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System. DNS will lay the foundation for the massive expansio

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Frank Bulk - iNAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken: > > Thanks for the info, but that still requires the domain owner to change > their MX records. I was wondering if there was something that could > literally be placed in the flow of traffic, like an FWSM in tra

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: Right, port 587 would require SMTP authentication. I'm no routing expert, but can tens of thousands of /32s be excluded using BGP communities? The sort of depends on how many fib entries you want to burn on not forwarding traffic... the argument in this thread ho

Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip

2008-06-23 Thread Joel M Snyder
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:47:17 -0700 From: Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[

RE: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Source IP blocking makes up a large portion of today's spam arrest approach, so we shouldn't discount the CPU benefits of that approach too quickly. I'm not sure where today's technology is in regards for caching the first 1 to 10kB of a sessiononce enough information is garnered to block, i

Re: Australian Co-Lo

2008-06-23 Thread McDonald Richards
AAPT are pretty far from being carrier neutral these days On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Julien Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/06/08 01:04, Martin Barry wrote: > > $quoted_author = "Bernard Becker" ; > >> Looking for recommendations for carrier neutral co-lo facility for > Melb