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

[Roberto Gaetano]

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John,
In discussions that I had with Ken Silva, Verisign's CSO, he stated that
they take DDoS attacks very seriously.
I am under the impression that a serious attack could really do some damage.
On the other hand, a serious attack would probably need some very good
motivation, as I don't think that the cost of it would be trivial.
So, my personal feeling would be rather that the possibility of a DoS is
rather unlikely than impossible. But that, as I said, is just my impression
as a non-technical person.
Cheers,
Roberto

 

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> [mailto:at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf 
> Of John R. Levine
> Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:00
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> Cc: Ga
> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large Scale 
> DDoS Attack
> 
> > 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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