--- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 06:50:38 -0800 To: declanat_private From: Paul Hoffman <phoffmanat_private> Subject: Re: FC: Interview with Karl Auerbach: "ICANN is out of control!" >October's distributed, denial-of-service attack against the domain name >system--the most serious yet, in which seven of the thirteen DNS roots were >cut off from the Internet Exciting lead. Too bad it is completely wrong. None were cut off, and none stopped responding to requests. Also, it is unrelated to ICANN, who physically and technically controls only one of the root servers. >The security of DNS >is on ICANN's watch. This write obviously never talked to a root server operator. None of them are looking to ICANN for security advice. They are independent. > Why is it so susceptible to attack, when the Internet >as a whole is touted as being able to withstand nuclear Armageddon? No one with any sense has ever said that. --Paul Hoffman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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