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

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

Eric and all,

  Go to ICANN HQ's men's room and be sure you turn the exhaust
fan on as well as leave it on when you leave.  You will hopefully leave
adequately relieved, and at the same time leave a proper calling card
for ICANN's close review and consideration.  >:)  For the ladies,
replace "men's room" with ladies room, and proceed the same
accordingly.  >:)  For you ladies, you all might add a note on the
ladies room door written in the lipstick you may carry in your
bag/purse/small suitcase reading "enter at your own ofactory risk"
signed the .com gals!  Hopefully the ICANN staff ladies will get
the message clearly?  >:)

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>
> Sorry Joe, I guess I was unclear. My question is this: When this inevitable
  failure occurs where will we go to get what we want?

  --- On Sun, 1/25/09, Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

       From: Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Subject: Re: [ga] Re: [At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large Scale
       DDoS Attack
       To: hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx
       Cc: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ga"
       <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 6:43 AM



       On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Hugh
       Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx> 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?


       To prevent resolution failure you need name servers having host names
       from zones NOT .com. And this only works for NON .com domains.  If
       the .com servers are successfully attacked then all of .com is
       effected.

       The problem is .com is so pervasive in its popularity and so many
       name server hosts use .com in their host names that this sort of
       attack is inevitable.

       regards
       joe baptista






            --- 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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