Internet vulnerabilities

Thu Jul 4 18:09:56 UTC 2002

Well, the recent jumbo AS path issue had an interesting effect of resource 
starvation on a few routers.  Still, I think the softest targets are the 
root name servers.  I was glad to hear at the Toronto NANOG meeting that 
this was being looked into from a routing perspective.  Not sure what is 
being done from a DoS perspective.

         ---Mike

At 01:56 PM 04/07/2002 -0400, Jason Lewis wrote:

>There is a lot of news lately about terrorist groups doing recon on
>potential targets.  The stories got me thinking.
>
>What are the real threats to the global Internet?
>
>I am looking for anything that might be a potential attack point.  I don't
>want to start a flame war, but any interesting or even way out there idea
>is welcome.
>
>Is it feasible that a coordinated attack could shutdown the entire net?  I
>am not talking DDoS.  What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt
>BGP on a widescale?
>
>jas