[96672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting new dns failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon May 21 13:37:30 2007
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:36:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0705211513380.8022@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
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> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
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> > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> > > the root servers are responsible how exactly for the fast-flux issues?
> > > Also, there might be some legittimate business that uses something like
> > > the FF techniques... but, uhm... how are the root servers involved again?
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> > Small note: For regular fastflux, yes. for NS fastflux, not so much.
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> For regular FF 'yes' but for ns FF not much? Hrm, not much legit purpose?
> or not much the root/tld folks can do?
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> I ask because essentially akamai's edgesuite (and I might have their
> product names confused some) seems to do FF ... or the same thing FF does.
> Doesn't it?
Sorry, I didn't write in a clear fashion.
There is a difference between fastfluxing the A record and the NS record.
I don't know of many if any who change the NS record quite so frequently
without being bad guys.
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> -Chris
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