[106205] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TLD servers with recursion was Re: Exploit for DNS Cache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Jul 24 11:52:58 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:50:15 -0000
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From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>, "John Kristoff" <jtk@centergate.net>
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>=20
> I personally know several folks from within and wayyy from outside the
> DNS
> world who discovered this very out there and obvious issue and worked
> hard
> to try and contact the operators. Those that haven't fixed it yet,
> likely
> won't if all thing remain even.
>=20
I don't know that a failure to act immediately is indicative of ignoring
the problem. Not to defend AT&T or any other provider, but it's not as
simple as rolling out a patch.=20
-M<
