[106687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS attacks evolve
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Sat Aug 9 18:51:03 2008
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g38wv5rfod.fsf@nsa.vix.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:50:42 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Aug 9, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> second, please think carefully about the word "severe". any time
> someone
> can cheerfully hammer you at full-GigE speed for 10 hours, you've
> got some
> trouble, and you'll need to monitor for those troubles. 11 seconds of
> 10MBit/sec fit my definition of "severe". 10 hours at 1000MBit/sec
> doesn't.
I think what we're seeing here is the realization that DNS hosting,
like web hosting, is no longer something that can simply be done by
tossing a machine on the internet and leaving it there; it needs
professional management, monitoring and updates. That's always a hard
transition for some people to make, but it's one that has to be made;
that's the world we live in.
Kee Hinckley
CEO/CTO Somewhere Inc.
Somewhere: http://www.somewhere.com/
TechnoSocial: http://xrl.us/bh35i
I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to
accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager
to regulate those of everybody else.
