[53322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Mon Nov 11 10:58:10 2002
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:57:43 -0500
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake "Gil Cohen" <gcohen@saturnbandwidth.net>
>
>> In an effort to protect the Internet from future hacking attacks, VeriSign
>> (Nasdaq: VRSN - news) has moved one of the Net's root servers to an
>> undisclosed physical and virtual location.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something... J's "virtual location" aka IP address is now
> available from every DNS server in the world, not to mention the public
> announcement that VeriSign made to various lists. How is this undisclosed?
And how does it help anybody if a root server's address is made secret?
Wouldn't an off-line backup be just as useful and cheaper to implement?
-- David
