Re: "The ISC is the Microsoft of the DNS, BIND its Windows, ..."

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:53 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:30:10 EDT, Jeffrey Walton said:
> > request. Under this scheme, the distributed, fault tolerant nature of
> > DNS will be nullified. That is, a government only needs to poison the
> > database of one cooperating operator, and other cooperating dns
> > operators will dutifully incorporate the changes. To make matters
> > worse, the poisoning will cross national/political boundaries -
> > something governments don't fully enjoy under the current system.

...or technically understand.

> Oddly enough, BGP has exactly the same problem.

*bing*  :-)

- - ferg

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