Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Thu Apr 28 07:08:00 UTC 2005

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:16:36AM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:

 > Any IP that a provider allows servers on should have 
 > distinctive, non-dynamic-looking DNS (and preferably be in a separate 
 > netblock from the dynamically-assigned IPs).

What the hell is a "non-dynamic-looking DNS"?  Sure, if I see something
like "static-192-168-1-1.isp.net" I can be reasonably sure that it's
non-dynamic-looking, but what does the same thing look like in 
Portugese?  German?  Spanish?  French?  (Korean?  Chinese?)

Just wait'll we start getting unicode DNS names in non-English alphabets.
Perhaps then you can tell what to look for in a string of Kanji symbols
which might be suggestive of the concept of "static".

  - mark

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