[106210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TLD servers with recursion was Re: Exploit for DNS Cache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jul 24 12:03:52 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:00:11 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <BF08482709F8B24484F80A48DE20BEF377457B@agusto.kerfisleiga.is>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:50:15 -0000
"Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@verneglobal.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Right. What scares me is all of the semi-managed hotspots with
software that's rarely updated.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
