[34079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quark Physics)
Sat Jan 27 20:50:18 2001
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:27:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Quark Physics <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> Considering the small number of servers and their value I'm surprised
> nobody has gone for a sustained DDOS against them all at once. This could
> get pretty messy if they managed it.
Luckily, most of the script kiddies and l33t (elite) hackers are
anarchists, poorly organized, and busy messing with each other.
The problem is, as organized as the 'net community (including NANOG)
is, they would not have to get very organized to pull it off.
--Mike--
