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

Thu Jun 20 23:21:10 UTC 2013

I, for one, would not be in favor of an authoritarian rule over DNS, or
any other Internet system, to "ensure that the state of [the] service[s]
is running as it should."  I suppose one could view such an authoritarian
rule over (sub) systems to be a good thing, as in there is someone to
complain to when things don't work, but recent events show that it is also
easily abused.  I much rather prefer the current cooperative
administration of the Internet.

Thanks,

Fred Reimer

On 6/20/13 6:39 PM, "Phil Fagan" <philfagan at gmail.com> wrote:

>....at what point is the Internet a piece of infrastructure whereby we
>actually need a way to watch this thing holistically as it is one system
>and not just a bunch of inter-jointed systems? Who's job is it to do
>nothing but ensure that the state of DNS and other services is running as
>it should....who's the clearing house here.
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>On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
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>> netsol screwed up.  they screwed up bigtime.  they are shoveling kitty
>> litter over it as fast as they can, and they have a professional kitty
>> litter, aka pr, department.
>>
>> but none of this is surprising.
>>
>> and dnssec did not save us.  is there anything which could have?
>>
>> randy
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