Re: DNS Server domains was Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <200601170913.46868.simonw () zynet net>, Simon Waters writes:
>

> I think the general consensus in the DNS field is that for security reasons it
> is preferable to have as small a set of DNS servers (or perhaps as small as 
> set of differently configured servers! Hmm physical security....) in the 
> hierarchy above you as possible, since compromise of any of these could 
> affect the results obtained for your domain.

See http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/tech/ramasubramanian.html


                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb