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Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Black)
Tue Jul 29 21:47:44 1997

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:39:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: "Lon R. Stockton, Jr." <lon@moonstar.com>
cc: Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970729213405.4111A-100000@luna.moonstar.com>

yes, how dare i not say a word about a problem before fixing it?  what 
scum i am.

gimme a break.

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Lon R. Stockton, Jr. wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> 
> > [...] but there is a gaping chasm between the current 
> > system and DNSSEC that could be closed significantly with proper design.
> 
> Well, in the words of internet, fidonet, and other developers worldwide....
> 
>       Send Code <tm>
> 
> If you have "proper design" that significantly closes the holes, I'm sure 
> we'd all, Mr. Vixie included, appreciate your patch files which 
> illustrate proper design.
> 
> > simply stating that until DNSSEC arrives these attacks are going to be 
> > allowed is a copout.
> 
> Simply stating that there's a better way without Sending Code is a copout.
> 

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