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Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

  • From: Warren Kumari
  • Date: Wed Apr 11 13:38:51 2007


On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:28 AM, J. Oquendo wrote:

[email protected] wrote:
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:07:19 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:

these so called rules? Many network operators are required to
do a lot of things, one of these things should be the
mitigation of malicious traffic from LEAVING their network.


And I want a pony.

We don't even do a (near) universal job of filtering rfc1918 addresses
and spoofed addresses. We aren't filtering obvious bogon packets, how
do you propose we filter less obvious malicious traffic (is that SYN
packet legit, or part of a DDOS, or just a slashdotting of a suddenly
popular site?).


* Valdis Kletnieks <[email protected]>
* 0xB4D3D7B0 - Unverified

When you say we, speak for yourself and your own networks.
There ARE some
people who do take the time to properly design their networks.

And I would suggest that Valdis is one of them....

From my reading of his message I understood that:
A: Some people filter bad stuff.
B: Some people don't.

I don't think that it is unreasonable that he used "we " to include all network engineers -- "we" as a community does include A and B

It is the
same "Well since Billy didn't do it neither will I" attitude that makes
me never think twice about blocking CIDR's.

So, I have always wondered -- how do you customers really react when they can no longer reach www.example.com, a site hosted a few IPs away from www.badevilphisher.net? And do you really think that you blocking them is going to make example.com contact their provider to get things fixed?


Since 'THEY' (your "WE") didn't properly configure their network, why
should I think twice about letting it into my backyard. I guess its calling
for too much for network operators to actually do their work though

Have you considered that being a little politer and not insulting everyone on the list might be a more constructive way of getting your point across -- if I were to call you a "big, fat, doodoo head" you would probably be less receptive than if I didn't...

and I
guess considering IPv6 is like how many years away now, I can expect that
much of a wait for people to implement what should have been done from the
onset.

I don't care how filtering gets done from someone else. Like I said if I
can watch and control what comes out of my networks using raw tools on
nix machines, you cannot with a straight face/typing method tell me that
someone at one of these big providers can't clue themselves in to getting
malicious traffic controlled.

Should someone want to comment about "oh golly the cost is outrageous"
I say bs... Its utter laziness from my eyes. So here I go politely
pointing it out... If I can do it with a couple of thousand machines on
my VERY OWN, not a "team", not a "department" but me, in a matter of
minutes, situate my network to not send out crap, then why can't these
companies?

Yes, it is great that you are doing your bit to help keep the net clean. Congratulations and thank you. Perhaps you could write a nice, simple, friendly guide explaining how you ensure that your network is never the source of malicious traffic? And how this can be scaled up to work in a large, backbone network where? Perhaps you could politely contact those who are not doing their bit and, in a helpful manner explain how they could improve -- educating and encouraging change in those who are not doing their bit is much more likely to make things better than screaming "You suck, I'm not going to accept your packets, nah nah nah."


I'd like to here something logical, not someone's opinion.
Something like "According to ARIN/IEEE specifications of foobarfoo,
operators are not allowed to view traffic entering or leaving their
networks" which hinders this. There is no reason I could think of,
no scenario I could imagine, that would prohibit network operators
from putting the nail in the coffin with stuff LEAVING THEIR NETS.

Note the word LEAVING now. If it doesn't leave, you wouldn't have
complaints from some other operator now would you.



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I suspect that I should have just stayed out of this thread....
W
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