[96661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting new dns failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon May 21 08:22:55 2007
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:19:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070521081322.GA741@nic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:25:37PM -0700,
> Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote
> a message of 15 lines which said:
>
> > >If not, have any root nameservers been hacked?
> >
> > To partly answer my own question, no.
>
> I cannot find the original message in my mailbox. (Not on NANOG
> mailing list archives.) What was the issue?
>
> > The data returned by root (gtld) nameservers is not changing
> > rapidly.
>
> Now, I understand nothing. Is there a problem with the root
> nameservers or with some gTLD nameservers???
>
There is the issue of fastflux, and the possible solution of blacklisting
at the TLDs.
Both completely separate issues for discussion-sake, as flames can be
avoided.
Gadi.
