Re: Spam?

2011-07-14 Thread Paul Graydon
OMG can't you people run proper spam filtering on your own mail servers that filter out the nanog messages that are spam?! I think I've had two messages in the last month, while others of you are talking about dozens? Do you need to buy some hosting for your email accounts? My filtering wor

RE: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

2011-07-14 Thread Leigh Porter
On 14/07/2011 9:08 a.m., Larry Stites wrote: > Given what you know now, if you were 21 and just starting into networking / > communications industry which areas of study or specialty would you > prioritize? > Rebeccah Harris in my physics lectures. She was clearly up for it. -- Leigh

Re: Spam?

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Kulawiec
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:48:54PM +1200, Don Gould wrote: > OMG can't you people run proper spam filtering on your own mail > servers that filter out the nanog messages that are spam?! One of the fundamental principles of spam mitigation is that blocking is usually best (in terms of: efficacy, ac

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 13/07/11 11:37 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Mattias Ahnberg wrote: >> I might have missed some discussion; but why are we moving >> away from mailman, and what software is in the new system? > > Seconded. Mailman is presently the gold standard for mai

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Alex Ryu
That issue can be resolved by changing email addresses for multiple language support by using announce...@example.com, anounce...@example.com ? Alex On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 13/07/11 11:37 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:13:10PM +0200,

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 15/07/11 12:24 AM, Alex Ryu wrote: > That issue can be resolved by changing email addresses for multiple > language support by using announce...@example.com, > anounce...@example.com ? Yeah, that's how I'd get around it. I think the Document Foundation had some other issues, like wanting addre

NANOG - Call for Volunteers

2011-07-14 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: Given the issues we had with the mailing list transition, we would like to solicit volunteers to assist in testing the "new" configuration. Please note, we are just moving the existing Mailman configuration to a new server under our control, but we have to move the list due to contr

Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Cartier
Hi All, I just wanted to throw a question out to the list... In our data center we feed Internet to some of our US based offices and every now and again we receive complaints that they can't access some US based Internet content because they are coming from a Canadian based IP. This has sparke

Re: Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread Phil Sykes
Hi Jeff, You might have some luck following the instructions on http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP to register one particular /32 within your Canadian-announced netblock as being in the USA, and selectively NATing as you suggest, but I believe some stricter GeoIP databases check next hops an

Re: Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Jeff Cartier wrote: > Hi All, > > I just wanted to throw a question out to the list... > > In our data center we feed Internet to some of our US based offices and every > now and again we receive complaints that they can't access some US based > Internet content

Re: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

2011-07-14 Thread Jason Baugher
On 7/13/2011 4:28 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2011-07-13 14:08 -0700), Larry Stites wrote: Given what you know now, if you were 21 and just starting into networking / communications industry which areas of study or specialty would you prioritize? Again? Buy AAPL, INTC and MSFT with loan money and

Re: Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread david raistrick
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Jeff Cartier wrote: - Does the idea of having local Internet at each site make more sense? If so why? IME, costs for private backhaul circuits of any flavor are significantly higher than costs for plain internet access - so backhauling internet access (unless you have ex

Re: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

2011-07-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jason Baugher said: > If I had to have a job where I did the same thing every day, year after > year, I'd stab a pencil in my eye. I love that our industry is > constantly evolving. Definate +1 to that. I look at how my father's job has changed in his 49+ years; he's gone fro

Re: Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:35 PM, david raistrick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Jeff Cartier wrote: > >> - Does the idea of having local Internet at each site make more sense? If so >> why? > > IME, costs for private backhaul circuits of any flavor are significantly > higher than costs for plain i

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Fernando Gont
On 07/11/2011 09:17 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > I realise this is not "specific implementations" as you requested, but > it seems to me that the problem is generic enough not to require that. > > The attack is made possible by the design of the protocol, not any > failing of specific implementations. S

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 07/11/2011 09:17 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > Vulnerability to this specific issues has a great deal to do with the > implementation. After all, whenever there's a data structure that can Yes > In this particular case, if the implementation enf

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-14 Thread Randy Bush
you want to give ops feedback to the ietf, well ... i suggest a loc/id session at the next nanog, 20-30 mins each for LISP ILNP 6296 where each is explained at an architectural level in some detail with also a predeterimied list of questions such as "how does this address loc/id separation,

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: >> On 07/11/2011 09:17 PM, Karl Auer wrote: >> Vulnerability to this specific issues has a great deal to do with the >> implementation. After all, whenever there's a data structure that can > Y

Re: Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Cartier wrote: > -          How should/can an enterprise deal with accessibility to internet > content issues? (ie. that whole coming from a Canadian IP accessing US > content) You indeed might feed traffic towards such "IP restricted" sites through a transp

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Fernando Gont
On 07/14/2011 10:24 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> In this particular case, if the implementation enforces a limit on the >> number of entries in the "INCOMPLETE" state, then only nodes that have >> never communicated with the outside world could be affected by this >> attack. And if those entries that a

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: >> It should be possible to mitigate this, so long as the attack does not >> actually >> originate from a neighbor on the same subnet as a router IP interface on >> an IPv6 subnet with sufficient number of IPs. > > Well, unless there's some

Re: Enterprise Internet - Question

2011-07-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Cartier > wrote: >> - How should/can an enterprise deal with accessibility to internet >> content issues? (ie. that whole coming from a Canadian IP accessing US >> content) > You indeed might feed t

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Fernando Gont
On 07/14/2011 11:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: >> Well, unless there's some layer-2 anti-spoofing mitigation in >> place, with /64 subnets the "local attacker" typically *will* have >> enough addresses. > > Solving a local attack Well, I was talking about not *introducing* ;-) one. > is something

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Jared Mauch
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gashinsky-v6nd-enhance-00 Sent from my iThing On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 07/14/2011 11:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >>> Well, unless there's some layer-2 anti-spoofing mitigation in >>> place, with /64 subnets the "local attacker" ty

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > Anyone on a layer-2 network can do something interesting like flood all f's > and kill the lan. Trying to keep the majority of thoughts here for layer-3 > originated attacks, even if the t

Re: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

2011-07-14 Thread Daniël W . Crompton
Hi Larry, I would learn 2 things: * having fun learning * time management It's been almost 14 years since I was 21 and I concur with many of the things mentioned in this thread, and learned a few of them. However it wasn't all the time I spend studying and learning, it's all the time I spend bein

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Fernando Gont
On 07/15/2011 12:24 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > A similarly hazardous situation exists with IPv4, and it is basically > unheard of for IPv4's Layer 2/ARP security weaknesses to be exploited > to create a DoS condition, even though they can be (very easily), IMO, the situation is different, in that

Re: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

2011-07-14 Thread Joel Maslak
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Larry Stites wrote: > Given what you know now, if you were 21 and just starting into networking / > communications industry which areas of study or specialty would you > prioritize? > Make sure you are always learning. You can't stop learning in this industry.

Re: BGP Design question.

2011-07-14 Thread Matt Hite
Sure. Sometimes it's nice/convenient to let firewalls advertise the external blocks they use for NAT translations, etc. Otherwise you need to statically route them to the firewall and redistribute the statics from said routers into your IGP. Also, in some cases, people want to do network-based loa

Google DNS just disappeared

2011-07-14 Thread Cody Rose
Is anyone else seeing that Googles DNS records just disappeared? I just lost all connectivity to Google services including google.com, plus.google.com, Public dns, etc. Regards, Cody Rose NOC & Sys Admin Website: www.killsudo.info email: c...@killsudo.info --- $

Re: Google DNS just disappeared

2011-07-14 Thread Cody Rose
Service just returned, DNS is active and connectivity directly to IPs are working again. Guess it was just a blip. Regards, Cody Rose NOC & Sys Admin Website: www.killsudo.info email: c...@killsudo.info signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Google DNS just disappeared

2011-07-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Cody Rose wrote: > Is anyone else seeing that Googles DNS records just disappeared? > > I just lost all connectivity to Google services including google.com, > plus.google.com, Public dns, etc. Weird, works fine from h

Re: Google DNS just disappeared

2011-07-14 Thread Cody Rose
It appeared to be very brief, I just happened to be in a Google Plus Hangout when the chat died then my Gtalk died followed by my Google homepage. By the time I got done checking DNS and was getting on a trace-route server my chat reconnected and service was back to normal. Just thought it was

Re: NDP DoS attack (was Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?))

2011-07-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: >> On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: >> Anyone on a layer-2 network can do something interesting like flood all f's >> and kill the lan. Trying to keep the majority of thoughts