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Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
by Kevin.Smith＠dca.state.fl.us 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

All, Participting in a severe solar event EXERCISE. Can anyone give me an educated guesstimate of the percentage of backbone traffic that is satellite dependent vs. that which is totally land-based? Thanks Kevin Smith Information Systems & Services Department of Community Affairs kevin.smith(a)dca.state.fl.us [preferred] 850.922.9921 [voice] 850.487.3376 [fax] -------------------------- Sent from a BlackBerry Wireless Handheld Florida has a broad public records law and all correspondence, including email addresses, may be subject to disclosure.

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Ethical DDoS drone network
by Jeffrey Lyon 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Say for instance one wanted to create an "ethical botnet," how would this be done in a manner that is legal, non-abusive toward other networks, and unquestionably used for legitimate internal security purposes? How does your company approach this dilemma? Our company for instance has always relied on outside attacks to spot check our security and i'm beginning to think there may be a more user friendly alternative. Thoughts? -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.lyon(a)blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401.

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Northern Ireland undersea branch to be implemented
by Martin Hannigan 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hibernia has been busy. "THE COMMUNICATIONS minister Eamon Ryan and the North's Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster have announced the awarding of a £30 million (€32 million) contract to construct a new direct telecommunications link to North America that will benefit Northern Ireland and the Republic" http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0106/1230936699678.html -M< -- Martin Hannigan martin(a)theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079

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question about BGP default routing
by Kai Chen 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi all I have a question: I see very few prefixes in a routing table and combining the prefixes does not cover addresses space, for example, {78.41.184.0/21, 91.103.239.0/24, 91.103.232.0/22, 82.138.64.0/23, 91.103.232.0/21, 77.95.71.0/24} are all prefixes I observed from a BGP speaking router, I am just asking is this router using a default routing for all the other destinations? Thanks a lot

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Hirschmann Switches?
by Paul Wall 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I'm looking for feedback from users of the Hirschmann (Belden) ethernet switches in a service provider environment. Private or public appreciated. Drive Slow, Paul Wall

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? how cisco router handle the out-of-order ICMP echo-reply packets
by Zhao Ping 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi, Does someone happen to know how the Cisco IOS handle the out-of-order ICMP echo-reply packets? print it as success or lose? Thanks, Zhao Ping

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Where there's a nanog thread there'll be a vendor solution .. Re: Ethical DDoS drone network
by Suresh Ramasubramanian 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:24 PM, BATTLES, TIMOTHY A (TIM), ATTLABS <tmbattles(a)att.com> wrote: > There are some assumptions here. First are you considering volumetric > DDOS attacks? Second, if you plan on harvesting wild bots and using them > to serve your purpose then I don't see how this can be ethical unless > they are just clients from your own network making it less distributed. I cant believe this .. http://www.iprental.com Looks like anonymizer combined with what looks almost like a "rent a botnet", legit nodes (you sign up to download a client that makes you part of this botnet, etc) http://www.iprental.com/technical/ Speaking of a "commercial botnet"", there was something similar earlier - but that was a "download this bulk mailer" type operation, guys called Atriks, who got tracked so extensively by spamhaus that they seem to have kind of disappeared now. --srs

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Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5 flaw.
by Rodrick Brown 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of Internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to create a rogue certificate authority and use it to issue valid SSL certificates for any site they want. The user would have no indication that their HTTPS connection was being monitored/modified. http://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-break-ssl-using-200-… http://phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/ -- [ Rodrick R. Brown ] http://www.rodrickbrown.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrickbrown

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IPv6: IS-IS or OSPFv3
by devang patel 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hello, I do have some confusion about which one is better for IPv6 in Service Provider networks as far as IP routing and MPLS application is concern! 1. Which protocol should i use to support the IPv6 in network: ISIS or OSPFv3? As ISIS has multi-topology feature that can give us capability to run IPv4 network separate from IPv6 right! and same thing with OSPF: OSPFv2 will be used for IPv4 routing and OSPFv3 will be used for IPv6 routing! again Its look like resource utilization for both the protocol will be same as they are going to use separate database for storing the routing or topology information. ISIS still has advantage over OSPF as it does use the TLV structure which can help in expanding network to support the new feature! 2. MPLS is not distributing label for IPv6 protocol so again there will not be any IGP best path calcuated for any MPLS related application for IPv6! 3. what if i have already running OSPFv2 for IPv4 in the network then should i think for migrating to ISIS? if yes then what are the advantages that I can look at for migrating my network to IS-IS? regards Devang Patel

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Re: Ethical DDoS drone network
by deleskie＠gmail.com 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Super risky. This would be a 99% legal worry plus. Unless all the end points and networks they cross sign off on it the risk is beyond huge. -jim ------Original Message------ From: Jeffrey Lyon Sender: To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Ethical DDoS drone network Sent: Jan 4, 2009 10:06 PM Say for instance one wanted to create an "ethical botnet," how would this be done in a manner that is legal, non-abusive toward other networks, and unquestionably used for legitimate internal security purposes? How does your company approach this dilemma? Our company for instance has always relied on outside attacks to spot check our security and i'm beginning to think there may be a more user friendly alternative. Thoughts? -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.lyon(a)blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

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