Well, the recent jumbo AS path issue had an interesting effect of resource starvation on a few routers. Still, I think the softest targets are the root name servers. I was glad to hear at the Toronto NANOG meeting that this was being looked into from a routing perspective. Not sure what is being done from a DoS perspective. ---Mike At 01:56 PM 04/07/2002 -0400, Jason Lewis wrote:
There is a lot of news lately about terrorist groups doing recon on potential targets. The stories got me thinking.
What are the real threats to the global Internet?
I am looking for anything that might be a potential attack point. I don't want to start a flame war, but any interesting or even way out there idea is welcome.
Is it feasible that a coordinated attack could shutdown the entire net? I am not talking DDoS. What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt BGP on a widescale?
jas