[95624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names (kill this thread)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Sun Apr 1 01:04:35 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0703312256460.14352-100000@linuxbox.org>
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:37:47 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 31, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> You do realize this post is not about Microsoft or IE 0days, right?
>
Your words made it clear that it was.
Generalizing from "Windows 0day" to "coordinate shutdown of DNS for
evil domain in a timely fashion" is just obfuscating that the only
reason to do so is because Windows is the way it is.
From your original post, you explicitly defined the "Internet
emergency" as
"a critical 0day vulnerability currently exploited in the wild
threatens numerous desktop systems"
The desktop systems in question were all Windows ones, as I am sure you
know.
Up-ending methods of basic Internet admin functions that have evolved
over many years, due solely to Windows problems is only going to paper
over the underlying problem.
I would prefer not to turn this into an OS flamefest, my only point is
that *this list* is not the proper venue to discuss this issue; nor the
methods that you suggest as a remedy, regardless of merit.
Again if the rest of the list wants to continue, then so be it.
--Patrick
