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Managing IP addresses for your private clouds. 2013 ASEAN CAS Summit Bangkok, Thailand 7 February 2013 George Kuo Member Services Manager. Overview. Introduction to APNIC and Regional Internet Registries Why your own IP addresses for your clouds?
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Managing IP addresses for your private clouds 2013 ASEAN CAS Summit Bangkok, Thailand 7 February 2013 George Kuo Member Services Manager
Overview • Introduction to APNIC and Regional Internet Registries • Why your own IP addresses for your clouds? • Questions to ask your cloud service providers • IPv6 security • How to get IP addresses ? • Internet resource management policies
Regional Internet Registries The Internet community established the RIRs to provide fair access and consistent resource distribution and registration throughout the world.
What is APNIC? • The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific • Delegates IP addresses and AS numbers • Maintains the APNIC Whois Database • Manages reverse DNS delegations • Not-for-profit and membership based organization • 3,400+ Members • 100+ Members in Thailand • NOT a domain name registry
APNIC’s Mission • Assist the Asia Pacific Internet community in effective Internet resources management and distribution • Support regional Internet infrastructure building • Seek public consideration of issues that benefit Members and the community • Coordinate and facilitate Internet resource policy development • Provide training and outreach on resource management and APNIC services
Why your own IP addresses for your clouds? • Service provider networks • A key component in service provision • Addresses to be assigned to infrastructure and customers • Independent networks • Addresses to be used for their own networks • Allows easier management of multiple connections to ISPs/IXPs • Removes the need to renumber when changing upstream providers
Questions to ask your cloud service providers • Private IP addressing has its limitations. Are you numbering cloud hosts in public or private addresses? • Private:How many customers share the NAT interface to the public Internet? • Public: Does the provider have enough addresses to meet your future needs? • IP address portability • If you have access to a block of public addresses, does the provider have the capability to use them in provisioning your cloud solution? • What are the costs involved? • Are you being charged for public IP addresses?
Questions to ask your cloud service providers • Does the provider rely on NAT and CGN for their security? • NAT and CGN are not all of your security • You need proper configuration and ACL reflecting your function and needs, e.g. inbound SSH only for your back office network, outbound only to your specified clients • How much shared infrastructure between cloud customers and your specific needs? • Shared access path potentially shared risks • Does the cloud provider understand IPv6? • For future growth and and demand, start early, gain experience • Be aware of difference in IPv6 security
IPv6 security • Mostly the same as IPv4 • ACL are basically the same • ICMPv6 substantially different, do not block most ICMPv6, it’s needed for pMTU discovery…etc • Be aware of different IP fragmentation behaviour • New class of risks • Stateless auto config (SLAAC) • Switch ND exhaustion (DDOS attack) • Get proper IPv6 aware managed switches, they should offer mitigation against both risks
How to get IP addresses • Service providers and independent network operators get their IP addresses from their Internet Registry • Maximum /22 (1,024 addresses) of IPv4 • Initial /48 to /32 of IPv6 • Must meet current policy criteria • Casual users get their IP addresses from their service provider (ISP, hosting, data centre etc.)
How to get IP addresses • Online request form • www.apnic.net/member • Need support ? • Contact APNIC Member Services Helpdesk • Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 21:00 (UTC +10) • www.apnic.net/helpdesk
Policies • Service providers • IPv4 criteria • Have used a /24 from their upstream provider or demonstrate an immediate need for a /24, • Demonstrate a detailed plan for use of a /23 within a year • IPv6 criteria • Have existing IPv4, or • Plan to provide IPv6 connectivity and make 200 customer assignments in 2 years
Policies • Independent networks • IPv4 criteria • Connected or plan to connect within 3 months to multiple ISPs/IXPs, or • Running an IXP (Internet Exchange Point), or • Running an Internet critical infrastructure e.g. • Root domain name system (DNS) server; • Global top level domain (gTLD) nameservers; • Country code TLD (ccTLDs) nameservers; • National/Regional Internet Registry
Policies • Independent networks • IPv6 criteria • automatically eligible for a minimum IPv6 portable assignment if previously justified an IPv4 portable assignment from APNIC • Running an IXP (Internet Exchange Point), or • Running an Internet critical infrastructure e.g. • Root domain name system (DNS) server; • Global top level domain (gTLD) nameservers; • Country code TLD (ccTLDs) nameservers; • National/regional Internet Registry
Thanks! George Kuo, Member Services Manager <george@apnic.net>