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

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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