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

[Franck Martin]

And do you think that an attack against .com would be a simple matter  
now?

I think I can hear "nation security" with all the nasty things that  
come with it when you piss off some people.

Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question

On 26/01/2009, at 7:59, "John R. Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> We know.  Fortunately VRSN is a lot more technically sophisticated  
> than Netsol, and I would be quite surprised if anyone managed to  
> DDoS them successfully.
>
> I know some of the people who run the DNS servers, and they have a  
> variety of tricks up their sleeve that make them a lot more  
> resilient than you might think.  No, I can't tell you what they are.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet  
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex- 
> Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>
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