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Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 29 09:39:57 2008

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:39:27 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <488E1BCB.4040108@karnaugh.za.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Colin Alston wrote:
>
> If NS records pointed to IP's instead of names then this problem might not
> exist.

That would make no difference to Kaminsky's attack, since it's the NS
records he's overwriting, not the glue.

Tony.
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