'Net security gets root-level boost

Thu Oct 30 14:09:51 UTC 2003

It is a little bit surreal - its not like anycast is some weird, new, or
revolutionary technology. BGP is surely not a black art to the folks at
Verisign - and little is required to do anycast, other than some minor
routing configuration. Two possible solutions - Verisign is so big that
institutional paralysis has set in, or, they now say this when asked about
any configuration change. Either way, its unacceptable for them to be
fulfilling their contract in this manner.

-- 
Daniel Golding
Network and Telecommunications Strategies
Burton Group

> From: Barney Wolff <barney at databus.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:41:56 -0500
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: 'Net security gets root-level boost
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:58:20AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1027ddos.html
> 
> Love this quote from Verisign:
> 
> "We tested Anycast for about a year...to monitor its behavior,"
> Silva says. "These are important servers, and we didn't want to
> make any rash decisions about deploying it."
> 
> -- 
> Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
> I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
> 