RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
From: Adam McKenna [mailto:adam@flounder.net] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 2:35 PM
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:34:58PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Roeland, do you make this shit up as you go along, or what?
Nope, these are agreed upon concepts, just not from the IETF.
Agreed-upon by whom? The voices in your head?
You obviously don't understand the difference between "concept" and "definition". www.open-rsc.org www.dnso.net www.icann.org www.dnso.org BTW, that makes two, personal insults are to be directed at null@root-service.net from now on.
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:23:08PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
You obviously don't understand the difference between "concept" and "definition".
www.open-rsc.org www.dnso.net www.icann.org www.dnso.org
Very interesting.. http://www.dnso.org/constituency/gtld/gtld.html: : Root servers. : The list of 13 current root servers : ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root : The map of 13 current root servers : http://www.wia.org/pub/rootserv.html : IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root : http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2826.txt http://www.icann.org/committees/dns-root/y2k-statement.htm : The root of the Internet namespace consists of a single file, the root : zone file, which describes the delegations of the top level domains and : the associated records necessitated by the DNS protocol to implement those : delegations. Currently, this file is maintained by Network Solutions : Incorporated of Herndon, Virginia, USA and is made available to the 12 : secondary servers from the primary a.root-server.net. Change control of this : file is held by the IANA with changes, typically modifications of the name : servers for top level domains, being made approximately once or twice a week. I can't find anything that supports your comments at open-rsc.org, and I'm going to assume that you threw in dnso.net as a joke, since a) you own the domain, b) it looks like it was written by a 14 year old and c) nobody would take a site seriously that said it was "moving to a more dynamic architecture, using MS FrontPage2000". --Adam -- Adam McKenna <adam-sig@flounder.net> | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a bunch of wires GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA | connected to a bunch of other wires." 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A | Joe Rogan, _NewsRadio_ 6:50pm up 231 days, 17:08, 8 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Adam McKenna wrote:
Considering the small number of servers and their value I'm surprised nobody has gone for a sustained DDOS against them all at once. This could get pretty messy if they managed it. Obviously it's pretty hard to add additional servers but has the option of splitting the current group into multiple distributed machines with the same ip (like how these other DNS organisations are doing) been looked at? -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | | Home: simon@darkmere.gen.nz ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz
Considering the small number of servers and their value I'm surprised nobody has gone for a sustained DDOS against them all at once. This could get pretty messy if they managed it.
Luckily, most of the script kiddies and l33t (elite) hackers are anarchists, poorly organized, and busy messing with each other. The problem is, as organized as the 'net community (including NANOG) is, they would not have to get very organized to pull it off. --Mike--
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: [snip]
www.dnso.org
I checked the DNSO FAQ and it's unequivocal that there are 13 root servers. Hopefully clears up the interminable terminological dispute. This is hardly a list to attempt to redefine the term "root server" on. I'll leave the rest of the bickering to the dictionary police. joshua
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