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GeoDNS


From: kg9020 <kg9020 () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:48:46 -0500

Hello 

Have you tried

https://github.com/blblack/gdnsd

you can view usage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF75IGx9svM
art

On Mar 21, 2013, at 7:00 AM, nanog-request () nanog org wrote:

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
     (Constantine A. Murenin)
  2. Re: routing table go boom (Randy Bush)
  3. 2012 internet census (Randy Bush)
  4. Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
     (Simon Lyall)
  5. Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
     (bmanning () vacation karoshi com)
  6. Cisco password implementation trubs: weakened strength?
     (jamie rishaw)
  7. Re: Cisco password implementation trubs: weakened strength?
     (Nick Hilliard)
  8. Re: Cisco password implementation trubs: weakened strength?
     (Jimmy Hess)
  9. Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
     (Masataka Ohta)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:23:02 -0700
From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
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On 20 March 2013 21:29, Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:
Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

Why even stop there:  all modern browsers usually know the exact
location of the user, often with street-level accuracy.

If you think mobile, they don't, especially because "often" is
not at all "enough times".

Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace
Europe with Asia?

Why is there no way to do any of this?

Because it is impractical to assume an IP address can be mapped
uniquely to a geolocation.

Why is it impractical?  If I have a server in Germany and in Quebec,
why would it be impractical to have the logic in place such that
European visitors would be contacting the server in Germany, and
visitors from US/Canada -- the one in Quebec?

C.



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:23:08 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: routing table go boom
Message-ID: <m2sj3pb4ir.wl%randy () psg com>
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I certainly think there's a lot that can be done at middle-layers, eg: tunnels
to a few different providers.  I can be on a Comcast CM and ATT DSL link and
establish a link to a tunnel destination in Chicago that is low-latency for me
and the bits will all flow that way.  

The last mile loop problem though?

sweden and japan, among others, have some experiences (good and
mediocre) in this area

randy



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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:24:51 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: 2012 internet census
Message-ID: <m2ppytb1nw.wl%randy () psg com>
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nice piece of work

  http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

as cristel says, better coverage than atlas and no need for user
credits! :)

randy



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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:26:46 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall <simon () darkmere gen nz>
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Why is it impractical?  If I have a server in Germany and in Quebec,
why would it be impractical to have the logic in place such that
European visitors would be contacting the server in Germany, and
visitors from US/Canada -- the one in Quebec?

But what if the server in Quebec is a little VPS on a 10Mb/s link while 
the one in Germany is a rack of servers on a 10Gb/s link?

What if I just want the server in Quebec to serve people from Canada and 
the one in Germany serves the rest of the world?

What if it is 4am in Quebec but 9am in Germany? (it is right now)

What if I have half a dozen pops worldwide?

What if I have 20? 200? 2000?

What is closer to a user in New Zealand, A Pop in Japan, Singapore or LA?

The main thing with GSLB is:

The little guys don't need it,
The medium sized sites outsource,
The big guys roll their own.

Personally I outsource and it works very well.

-- 
Simon Lyall  |  Very Busy  |  Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/
"To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.




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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:41:40 +0000
From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
Message-ID: <20130321084140.GB432 () vacation karoshi com.>
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:23:02AM -0700, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
On 20 March 2013 21:29, Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:
Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

Why even stop there:  all modern browsers usually know the exact
location of the user, often with street-level accuracy.

If you think mobile, they don't, especially because "often" is
not at all "enough times".

Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace
Europe with Asia?


last month, while in western australia, geoloc pegged me in utah.
this morning, geoloc pegged me in Kansas, while resident in Maryland.


Why is there no way to do any of this?

Because it is impractical to assume an IP address can be mapped
uniquely to a geolocation.

Why is it impractical?  If I have a server in Germany and in Quebec,
why would it be impractical to have the logic in place such that
European visitors would be contacting the server in Germany, and
visitors from US/Canada -- the one in Quebec?

C.

secure dynamic update works.  waht is TWC's incentive to allow clients to update
tjheir reverse DNS delegations, esp when clients are leaving them for T-Mobile?


your sugesting the cretion and deployment of something that already exists
in the LOC RR.  Your rational is that LOC isn't used.  If thats the case,
why would your proposal be any more successful?

/bill



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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:10:36 -0500
From: jamie rishaw <j () arpa com>
To: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Cisco password implementation trubs: weakened strength?
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warning: I'm tired and this email is terse.
warning: for huge nerds only.
disclaimer: although I've worked with actual rocket scientists(hi Roger),
I'm. not one myself..nor am I a crypto mathnerd

apparently, Cisco is changing its password schemas.

old: pbkdf2 by 1k, salted
vs
New: (type 4) unsalted sha256
..
discuss.?

there is a cert and Cisco sa on this.. but I'm wondering if anyone has any
opinions, yea or nay.?

-j.


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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:57:02 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Cisco password implementation trubs: weakened strength?
Message-ID: <514AE77E.10705 () foobar org>
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On 21/03/2013 10:10, jamie rishaw wrote:
apparently, Cisco is changing its password schemas.

old: pbkdf2 by 1k, salted
vs
New: (type 4) unsalted sha256
..
discuss.?

security advisory:

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityResponse/cisco-sr-20130318-type4

which states:

Because of the issues discussed in this Security Response, Cisco is
taking the following actions for future Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE
releases:

Type 4 passwords will be deprecated: Future Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE
releases will not generate Type 4 passwords. However, to maintain
backward compatibility, existing Type 4 passwords will be parsed and
accepted. Customers will need to manually remove the existing Type 4
passwords from their configuration.

Kudos to Cisco - this was the right thing to do.

Nick




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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:22:52 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
To: jamie rishaw <j () arpa com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Cisco password implementation trubs: weakened strength?
Message-ID:
      <CAAAwwbVxUHr4v4O3_qqJHbXDTTaY0D0juMCNNbYOVGdzZS6ciA () mail gmail com>
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On 3/21/13, jamie rishaw <j () arpa com> wrote:
New: (type 4) unsalted sha256

Good for them; DES Crypt and MD5 crypt are dead... however, I hope
they have misspoken then...  because   that move would make no
sense... moving to simple unsalted SHA256  as the new hash type  would
definitely increase the performance of  potential password cracking
attempts against passwords stored at rest,  instead of addressing the
massive increase in cheap computing power  (which will necessitate all
software vendors who are concerned about stored password security,
stop using older crypt algorithms  yesterday).

In other words;  they would be moving to a weaker hashing algorithm if
selecting unsalted SHA -- more hashes per second of SHA256  could be
computed per second on equivalent GPU  than hashes per second of MD5
Crypt.

PBKDF2 at 10k rounds is stronger than MD5 crypt (more time required
for a password cracker); Bcrypt stronger than PBKDF2  with appropriate
work factor selected  (more time _and_  larger amounts of memory space
required  thwarting GPUs); etc.


Also, on what platform have they already used anything stronger than Unix crypt?

As far as I knew, Cisco were always using;  'type 7' password blobs
vigenere based symmetric encryption with a factory-defined key,  type
6 symmetric encrypted storage (with des/aes key obscured from view),
or type 5  basic unix crypt or Poul-Henning Kamp's MD5 crypt algorithm
used in FreeBSD.


I'm. not one myself..nor am I a crypto mathnerd
apparently, Cisco is changing its password schemas.
old: pbkdf2 by 1k, salted
vs
New: (type 4) unsalted sha256
..
discuss.?

there is a cert and Cisco sa on this.. but I'm wondering if anyone has any
opinions, yea or nay.?

--
-JH



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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:36:36 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
Message-ID: <514AF0C4.7000200 () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP

Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace
Europe with Asia?

Yes, of course.

Think mobile.

                                              Masataka Ohta



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