[64228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: False information: CEO of Versign facts are wrong
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Boolootian)
Fri Oct 17 12:49:59 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:47:35 -0700
From: Mark Boolootian <booloo@ucsc.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> This factoid has been proven false multiple times, in multiple forums over
> the last year. Its incredible that a CEO of a company that claims DNS
> expertise wouldn't know this was false. One particular "internet
> security" company was PINGing the root servers, and some of the root
> server operators turned off ping. The root servers themselves were
> unaffected (except maybe one operated by the US Military).
It might be a matter of interpretation. According to
http://d.root-servers.org/october21.txt:
2.1. Some root name servers were unreachable from many parts of the
global Internet due to congestion from the attack traffic delivered
upstream/nearby. While all servers continued to answer all queries they
received (due to successful overprovisioning of host resources), many
valid queries were unable to reach some root name servers due to attack-
related congestion effects, and thus went unanswered.
While I'm not trying to act as Sclavos' apologist, I think you have to
be careful about how you respond to this particular claim of his. You
can't dismiss it out-of-hand. Misleading? Yes. Flat out false? You'd
have to be more convincing.
