Re: [ga] Re: [At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoSAttack

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric and all,

  Well the latter would be at least a respit from the poorly managed
and poorly secured .Com space.  That said, others would be damaged
appriciatably, and there is no viable alternitive at present.  One than
has to ask, what to do, and how?  Would TLDA be able to fill
the void?  Maybe .FR taking up the slack?  No?  Well how about
getting some operational standards in place so that a means and
method can be popped into place to address such problems in the
shor term?

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>
> So then following out your so wisened scenario; What would we migrate
  to then?Or would we just go for walks, read books and watch Network TV
  shows?

  --- On Sat, 1/24/09, Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

       From: Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Subject: [ga] Re: [At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large
       Scale DDoS Attack
       To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Cc: "Ga" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 6:39 PM



       On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:56 PM, John R.
       Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

                 Hate to say it folks - but I told you so
                 a long time ago this was going to
                 happen.  If you want to attack the
                 Internet - you don't attack the root
                 servers - you attack .com name space.
                 Once .com name space is offline a lot
                 of the net just twinkles out of
                 existence.

            Network Solutions is not Verisign, and hasn't been
            for about a decade.

            Perhaps you might want to update your bookmarks or
            something.


       Don't bother telling me that - email the journalist who
       wrote the article.

       The issue here is that a successful attack against the .com
       servers would take out most of the internet since the
       technical infrastructure is so heavily dependent on the the
       .com zone.  Any dummy should understand that.

       It's irrelevant who runs the .com zone - the problem here is
       its popularity as a tld label also makes it vulnerable to
       attack because so many name space objects - ns hosts - are
       technically dependent on the zone.

       The day .com goes off line - and this day is inevitable -
       most of the internet will simply disappear for so many
       folks.  I look forward to that day - will give me an excuse
       to take the day off and enjoy an Internet free day..

       regards
       joe baptista

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