[52922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John M. Brown)
Wed Oct 23 12:38:24 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:37:35 -0700
From: "John M. Brown" <john@chagresventures.com>
To: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210221910400.63273-100000@vapour.net>; from batsy@vapour.net on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:58:45PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Root servers wouldn't make their zones unavailable.
Loosing the root servers would make their parent
zones unavailable.
end users should worry about their local name servers
and the TTL's for them.
Please make sure you understand the difference between
Root-Servers and Non-Root Servers. Its important
john brown
Le Geek
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:58:45PM -0400, batz wrote:
>
> The only useful recommendations I can think of to give to
> regular users would be to increase the TTL's on their zones
> to longer than a day if they are worried about root servers
> making their domains unresolvable, maybe expect occasional
> delays in name resolution when surfing the net, and to remind
> them to ensure their machines are locked down.
>
> Any others?
>
>
> --
> batz
>
>
