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

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

John and all,

  Conversily, DDoS attackers as well as other miscrients also have
many tricks to up-trick VRSN's.

"John R. Levine" wrote:

> > 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.
>
> We know.  Fortunately VRSN is a lot more technically sophisticated than
> Netsol, and I would be quite surprised if anyone managed to DDoS them
> successfully.
>
> I know some of the people who run the DNS servers, and they have a variety
> of tricks up their sleeve that make them a lot more resilient than you
> might think.  No, I can't tell you what they are.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
> Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>
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