You call the long-known and well-publisized attack against servers not running current versions of essential system software elegant? People, the net is not falling apart because Kashpureff knows how to fake a glue record; people who don't keep up with the security of their systems are (of course) having their security compromised. This is not an operational issue; this is a sysadmin-being-lazy issue. Please take it off NANOG. Stephen At 15:32 07-22-97 -0500, you wrote:
I'm sick of paying the NIC to, and in reality I think Kashpureff's hack is pretty elegant.
However, I disagree that capitalism is /pure evil/. Once
upon a time the net was driven by research and academia, but that day has passed. The net as it stands now is in poor shape, and a with the latest intense round of backhoe attacks and DNS problems the enormous amount of capital invested in the internet will have to be protected. This is when those capitalist companies will finally start to hash out technologies that make the internet more redundandt. The problem and, I believe, the solution lies with the root name servers. Until people accept and use more than the current InterNIC root server we won't be able to announce any more domain name strategies.
Aaron Abelard / aaron@abelard.com / http://www.abelard.com/ "Nunc Lento Sunito Dicunt, Moreris" (Donne) "Lasciate tutto speranza, voiche entrate" (Dante) "kinda like a cloud i was up way up in the sky" (NIN) "Once more unto the breech, dear friend" (Shakespeare)
-- Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of not less than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html