This is a coordinated hacking. (Was Re: Need help in flushing DNS)

Thu Jun 20 22:12:18 UTC 2013

On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:42 -0700, RijilV wrote:
> On 20 June 2013 14:28, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:08:18 -0700, Jeff Shultz said:
> >
> > > "small number of Network Solutions customers"
> > >
> > > They must be staffed with physicists, astronomers, or economists.... I
> > > don't know anyone else that would consider "nearly fifty thousand" (from
> > > a previous post by Phil Fagan) to be a small number.
> >
> > It's relatively small when you consider there's something like 140M .com's
> >
> >
> So it's okay to screw over "nearly fifty thousand" customer domains because
> there are 140M .com's?  When talking about inadvertently effecting that
> many folks I don't think it is appropriate to trivialize the customer
> impact by calling it small when you're talking about a handful of large
> websites that aren't somehow magically shared over those 140M .coms.  Also
> it is untrue to limit it to only "the websites" given how many other things
> folks are likely to be using DNS for...
> 
> .r'
> 

	I think you are reading it the wrong way. Mr.Kletnieks never said it
was okay. He just stated that the numbers were trivial when compared to
the rest of potential customers being affected.
 	Be cool, Richard Golodner