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[ga] Hijacking of old L root server address space announcements

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  • Subject: [ga] Hijacking of old L root server address space announcements
  • From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 07:07:41 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,

There's an interesting story on Slashdot today:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/19/1325214

regarding entities masquerading as the old L root server. Presumably
they have a malevolent purpose behind this, to redirect traffic
intended for the real root servers for economic and/or criminal
reasons.

I would hope that someone at ICANN is looking at this, as it is
potentially a large security issue.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/



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