17 Sep
2003
17 Sep
'03
12:10 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Simon Waters wrote:
As such any root server operator can potentially hijack a significant amount (majority?) of Internet traffic, at least if no one notices something odd, and figures out what is going on too quickly. This is DNS security 101...
A single rogue root server could be very messy to cleanup after if the person in control of the rogue server were skilled in the art (and root server operators are suppose to be so skilled to get the job).
Fortunately people will start noticing within minutes if not seconds. A quick manual purge of the resolver cache should suffice for cleanup once the problem itself has been fixed.