[Gllug] so after the DNS - Attack

[Juergen Schinker]

Am Mi, 7.02.2007, 10:59, schrieb Jason Clifford:


> People generally do not run their own name servers but rather use their
> ISP's CACHING name servers.
>       ^^^^^^^
>
the Caches will soon be empty

> This means that they only ever send queries from their systems to the DNS
> servers offered either by their ISP or some other party running a caching
> name server.
>
> Secondly to that for the every root name server to be put out of operation
> would require an event that affected multiple software platforms, multiple
> networks run by separate organisations all at the same time. If that were
> to happen the network you suggest would be in the clear how exactly?

a DDoS will affect them and i just wanted to present an Alternative
in the naive hope that this network won't be affected...
>
> Of all parts of the internet the DNS root servers are probably the only
> bit left that really will keep working no matter what. It's the only area
> left with true redundancy.
>
>> > Yet you suggest that 12 geographically-limited servers are somehow
>> more
>> > DDoS-resistant than 122 geographically diverse servers.
>> >
>>  i just hope they don't do coz, if they do than it's to late
typo nevermind
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