[At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack

[Joe Baptista]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Bill Silverstein <icann-list at sorehands.com
> wrote:

> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:56 PM, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
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> > Don't bother telling me that - email the journalist who wrote the
> article.
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> > The issue here is that a successful attack against the .com servers
> would take out most of the internet since the technical infrastructure
> is so heavily dependent on the the .com zone.  Any dummy should
> understand that.
> He needs to tell you! It is the network solution name servers under
> attack, not the TLD servers for Verisign. This only effects the .com
> domains that are using Network Solutions' DNS.ti


If that is the case the attack is less relevant.  Depends on the percentage
of objects under the administration of those servers - would have some
impact but nothing devastating.

cheers
joe baptista


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