[26697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jan 13 18:31:16 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
Cc: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:25:58 -0800
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>> Above.Net really is filtering ORBS. And if ORBS lists people who block
>> them.....
> indeed! and just imagine the ensuing chaos if orbs decided to (or got
> hacked and was made to) list the root-servers.
two horrifying further thoughts occurred to me during my mid-afternoon
popcorn break.
o if someone hacked into isps' routers they could announce the root
servers and just imagine the ensuing chaos. so, should we take down
all bgp-speaking routers.
i bet you think not. so maybe this is not the issue, but security and
spam are.
o if someone hacked orbs and blocked the merit smtp host, we could all
be deprived of the critical operational information we get from this
mailing list <gasp!>.
but we should back off and not usurp bill's job as the bad-but-cute idea
fairy.
randy
