[95790] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S D Yao)
Tue Apr 3 18:47:37 2007
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:45:03 -0400
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
To: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
Cc: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:29:27PM +0100, Sam Stickland wrote:
...
> Maybe it would make sense for someone to reiterate what types of abuse
> DNS is facilitating? I believe what Gadi was getting at was mainly the
> ability to use fake details to register a domain, and then very rapidly
> cycling the A records through a wide range of hosts, attempting to avoid
> detection. As opposed to there actually being fundamental flaws open to
> abuse in a system that maps names to IP addresses.
...
Which is mostly a policy / procedure problem rather then a DNS problem,
eh?
--
Joe Yao
Analex Contractor
