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Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked.
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN () SDG DRA COM>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:56:48 -0500
rmeyer () mhsc COM (Roeland M.J. Meyer) writes:
That's not what Paul said.Randy Bush writes: this is false and specious garbage
Both statements are true. You can hijack domain names and insert bogus data in caches without hacking any root servers. It is much easier to just e-mail a domain modify template to NSI, and insert some bogus IP addresses for certain names. Similar to what happened to AOL last year (actually it appears to be a glue issue on some NS records). I haven't seen NSI official statements myself, only the news reports. But there is no evidence any of the independently operated root-name servers were hacked. If any systems were hacked, they were NSI's registration process. I think some people are getting too wrapped up in some really exotic attacks on DNS, when the simple ones still work. Maybe BEFORE-UPDATE will get finished now. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
Current thread:
- FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. David Alejandro Hernandez Alonso (Jul 02)
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. Randy Bush (Jul 02)
- RE: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. Roeland M.J. Meyer (Jul 02)
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. Dean Robb (Jul 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. Sean Donelan (Jul 02)
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. Randy Bush (Jul 02)
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. bmanning (Jul 02)
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. George Herbert (Jul 02)
- Re: FW: Root Domain Server Hacked. Randy Bush (Jul 02)