-----Original Message----- From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@linuxbox.org] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:52 AM To: Martin Hannigan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: TLD servers with recursion was Re: Exploit for DNS CachePoisoning- RELEASED
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I personally know several folks from within and wayyy from outside
the
DNS world who discovered this very out there and obvious issue and worked hard to try and contact the operators. Those that haven't fixed it yet, likely won't if all thing remain even.
I don't know that a failure to act immediately is indicative of ignoring the problem. Not to defend AT&T or any other provider, but it's not as simple as rolling out a patch.
Marty, are we talking of the same problem? I am talking about recursion enabled in bind?
I'm reading this as a complaint that people aren't fixing an obvious problem that has a high impact on the network. You're making sense in that respect, but my impression that the angst is in the speed of the fix, not in the need. If that observation is off, sorry. -M<