#arpnetworks 2016-01-03,Sun

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mercutioi can't help but be fascinated by the linode ddos attacks. [13:08]
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JC_Dentonmercutio: why? [16:15]
mercutioJC_Denton: they've been ddos'ed since xmas.
with a multi-targeted attack.
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JC_Dentonah, yeah. the continuing presence is pretty crazy.
i wonder who they irked.
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mercutioi dunno sometimes you hear of sites getting ddosed for a day or two
but a week for a vm provider i find kind of interesting.
i also wonder how many customers they have lost
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JC_Dentonprobably a few
i know a few linode users and it sounds like the support staff have been somewhat unsympathetic
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forgottenit's not their fault their getting ddosd by some pricks.. [16:27]
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mercutioJC_Denton: it's actually pretty hard to be sympathetic when you're actively dealing with issues.
JC_Denton: what often happens is someone who doesn't know what is happening so well responds to messages, while someone else deals with the problems.
and so you're left with incomplete responses, but at least some kind of response, and not tying up people dealing with the issue.
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JC_Dentonoh, i agree
but you shouldn't be snarky
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mercutiooh i didn't realise they were being snarky [19:00]
JC_Dentoni actually choose ARP over Linode, because i didn't like support's unusual IPv4 space justification requests [19:00]
mercutiothey were getting ddosed for many days though, so there may have been some sleep deprivation involved.
heh well linode is he.net in california too.
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JC_Dentoni have my ipv6 he.net shirt ... somewhere [19:01]
mercutioi actually chose lots of providers originally
it's more like who i dropped :)
but i have this weird fascination with liking to see how the internet performs from different vantage points..
which i suppose is like being fascinated with the weather in various locations around the world :)
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JC_Dentonyeah, i remember what it was. to get additional IPv4 space, they wanted me to send them the SSL certificates i intended to use.
very weird.
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mercutiooh what [19:03]
JC_Dentonand i'm like, guys, it's a /28 not some huge block
i've bounced around providers before
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mercutioi think asking for justifaction for a /28 is reasonable
but don't have to get ssl certs.
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JC_Dentonstuck with slicehost for a good long while until they got absorbed [19:04]
mercutioslicehost were terrible [19:04]
JC_Dentonjustification, sure. but i'm not giving you certs. [19:04]
mercutiothey were using these amd opterons that performed very slowly
and often had disk i/o issues
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JC_Dentonthey also apparently scan their customers with additional space to verify you're "using it correctly"
and i'm like, no...
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mercutioheh i heard about that happening in a wide way one time.
i have never seen any proof though
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JC_Dentoni had a big enough slice that i was virtually dedicated
got in early and had really, really good pricing that was grandfathered
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mercutiobut lots of people are sitting on unused /24s etc [19:05]
JC_Dentonwhen rackspace came in, they didn't honor that deal
definitely
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BryceBotThat's what she said!! [19:05]
mercutiothe thing is that lots of people are misusing /16s.
and the /16s matter so much more than the huge volume of /24s
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JC_Dentonthe old ISP i used to work for would routinely sell /24s without asking
to their credit, they were really, really prompt with canning abuse
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mercutioi kind of wish i got a /24 early [19:06]
JC_Dentonbut you'd get old school folks who sat on their /24s
or did silly stuff
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mercutioor like a /22 [19:06]
JC_Dentonwe had a guy who had a /24 routed to his DSL line and he gave like 10-20 of his machines public addresses
these were Windows XP machines, no less
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mercutioeek
actually that was really common years ago
because dialup etc would give people direct connection
and the first adsl, cable modems and so on just gave a single computer a direction connection.
s/direction/direct/
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BryceBot<mercutio> and the first adsl, cable modems and so on just gave a single computer a direct connection. [19:08]
mercutioon cable networks there was also often broadcast enabled
and you could sniff other computers on your lan
lots of people ran web servers etc on their cable connections too
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JC_Dentonafter he got dcom'd, he asked for a custom firewall, which the company was all too happy to provide (lots of money from custom stuff and consulting) [19:08]
mercutioso you could do a port scan on the cable network and find lots of web servers
ahh
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JC_Dentonheh, i run a small web server on my cable connection, but it's pretty much for my use [19:09]
mercutioyeah it was popular originally
then it wasn't, and now it is a bit
i just scp stuff personally
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JC_Dentonthe problem is if you get popular, you get hammered a bit
and your upload tanks
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mercutioyeah
well i have cloudflare in front of mine, and still my own server
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JC_Dentoni'm not rich enough to multi-home my home connection
but i've known folks that have done it
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mercutioi'm half multi-homed [19:10]
JC_Dentonusually cable + dsl, with the dsl being a backup
or it being the "server" half of the connection
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mercutioie the same addresses on two dsl connections
but i'm default routing out and have to manually change default route to change connections
and because they're both dsl, they can both go down at once
like both of them got cut a few months bakc
because people weren't sensible when digging
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JC_Dentonyeah, that manual change stuff is meh
i've got comcast and my v4 address rarely changes, but my v6 subnet will sometimes change for no apparent reason
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mercutioi don't mind manual change at all for home [19:13]
JC_Dentonso i've got to finangle some configs around
mostly routing + my vpn server
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mercutioi could automate it
and they terminate in two places at least
for home use i figure there's no reason to need things to instantly keep working
as long as you can fix it in a timely fashion
and i have backup route over the other connection for getting in from remote
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JC_Denton^^ [19:14]
mercutio@weather auckland [19:18]
BryceBotAuckland, New Zealand: Partly Cloudy ☁ 73°F (22°C), Humidity: 64%, Wind: From the ENE at 3.0 MPH Gusting to 8.0 MPH -- For more details including the forecast and almanac, see http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=-36.943710,174.771622 or re-request this with: @weather -v auckland [19:18]
mrsaintnote to self. Do not reboot boxes when drunk :) [19:30]
JC_Denton"best" mistake i've seen someone do like that [19:34]
BryceBotThat's what she said!! [19:34]
mrsaintI have 14 servers around the globe with quagga. I have ONE refusing to reuse saved config for quagga its the arp server.. It sucks.. better fix it some day [19:35]
JC_Dentonclusterssh session with two netapps
one in the process of being decom'd and the other taking its place
vol destroy. on both filers.
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mrsaintat that time its good to know the backups are tested and working. [19:36]
mercutioeek
this is why i like undo functionality
14 servers around the globe with quagga is brave
4 servers with quagga is brave
good chance 1 of them has issues :)
you know you want to start the migration to bird :)
but on a serious note, i found with quagga if you use the central config file it's more reliable than using bgp, ospf etc configs.
i used to have random problems with quagga/zebra crashing and so forth, and it'd leave all these routes in the routing table
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mrsainthaha they are rocksolid stable.. been running quagga for the last 15 years almost
but been using cisco also.. but went back to quagga.
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mercutiocurious
how come you have stability
did you ever try using ospf with quagga?
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mrsaintyeah.. but I dont need ospf on local nodes just exporting 1 /24 for anycast. [19:50]
mercutiooh
so you don't have route tables in there
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mrsaintand my core routers talk bgp between so no need
yeah 0/0 :)
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mercutiomaybe that's why you have stability :) [19:51]
mrsaintyeah..
but I tell you.. ipv6 and quagga sucks very much I just HATE it
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mercutiogoing to openbgpd was so amazing [19:51]
BryceBotThat's what she said!! [19:51]
mercutioand i had no-one to tell haha [19:51]
mrsaintyeah we do openbgp for our netnod and ix routers in general [19:51]
mercutiomost people don't even know what bgp is [19:51]
mrsaintbut I like quagga [19:51]
mercutioi like bird's performance
but i prefer openbgpd's config
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mrsaintI like cisco style..
easier..
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mercutiothink with just a /24 anything is easy [20:10]
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mrsaintyeah but those are the anycast nodes.. my normal routers have plenty more networks :) and multiple 10g connections..
and traffic do flow very good when even over 5gig on one box :)
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