On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Scott Doty wrote:
When a vendor at the security BOF starts showing documents that are "company confidential", and trying to whip up a climate of fear, that we should all deploy their product in front of our recursive name servers, i get this funny feeling that I am being "murk spammed".
Hmmm... The vendor that you are referring to provides authoritative DNS for many domains (and, at least some of them I view as "important", meaning that I would prefer a correct response!). Yes, I am sure that he would be happy to have you as a customer and, yes, this is feature that differentiates his company, but I did not get the impression AT ALL that he was trying to sell his service, but rather provide better service to his existing customers, even going so far as to provide free devices to people who run large recursive resolvers. This helps both his existing customers (who, yes, will be more likely to continue using him), but, more importantly helps me as an end user feel a little comfortable that the page that I am getting is the correct page...
it's probably also worth noting that the person in question has a history of giving away this sort of protection (in other forms) for the DNS system... and innovating as a DNS service provider, both for free (howdy: 4.2.2.1) and for a price.... I'm not sure I'd classify anything he does as a sales pitch in the venue in question. -Chris