[65196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Net Security Gets Root-Level Boost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Nov 14 11:14:53 2003
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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:14:11 -0500
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
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On 14 Nov 2003, at 02:08, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32116.html
F actually has 16 nodes live right now, not 12 as it says in the
article; a couple came live in the last week or two. There's a complete
list at <http://f.root-servers.org>.
The resilience of the infrastructure against denial-of-service attacks
is one important aspect of the security of the DNS. The fact that
there's still no reliable and widely-deployed way to authenticate
answers received in response to queries also probably deserved a
mention.
It's vaguely amusing that "anycast" is becoming a marketing buzzword.
Joe
