[80787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Thu May 12 04:34:06 2005
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:30:36 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > *Your* boxes may be hardened beyond all belief and plausibility, but
you're
> > *STILL* screwed if some teenaged kid on another continent has more
effective
> > control of the router at the other end of your OC-48 than the NOC monkey
you
> > call when things get wonky....
It is mostly fantasy. DNS security is much much more important and much more
real issue, vs this fictions.
If talking about Cisco, we have much more worries about chained bugs, vs
teens controlled OC-48 routers...
I mean - it is _real_, but it is far behind _much more realistic_ problems.
