[Gllug] so after the DNS - Attack

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Wed Feb 7 12:54:23 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Juergen Schinker wrote:
> but they do; most people underestimate that
> what if you read (in the newspaper) that yesterday the official
> DNS-Network went down ....
> 
> you try to get Information on the Internet ...ups -> does not resolv
> you try to send an email                   ...ups -> does not resolv

By far the biggest threat to DNS stability to date, imo, was executed by
Verisign and their SiteFinder "service".

http://www.verisign.com/information-services/naming-services/site-finder-services/index.html

We very quickly found a way to route around the damage and continue.

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