[49541] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Thu Jul 4 14:06:51 2002
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:09:56 -0400
To: jlewis@packetnexus.com, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Well, the recent jumbo AS path issue had an interesting effect of resource
starvation on a few routers. Still, I think the softest targets are the
root name servers. I was glad to hear at the Toronto NANOG meeting that
this was being looked into from a routing perspective. Not sure what is
being done from a DoS perspective.
---Mike
At 01:56 PM 04/07/2002 -0400, Jason Lewis wrote:
>There is a lot of news lately about terrorist groups doing recon on
>potential targets. The stories got me thinking.
>
>What are the real threats to the global Internet?
>
>I am looking for anything that might be a potential attack point. I don't
>want to start a flame war, but any interesting or even way out there idea
>is welcome.
>
>Is it feasible that a coordinated attack could shutdown the entire net? I
>am not talking DDoS. What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt
>BGP on a widescale?
>
>jas
