Re: Paul Vixie: Re: [dns-operations] DNS issue accidentally leaked?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:47:54PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> >     there you go.  the massive effort to patch would likley have
> >     better been spent to actually -sign- the stupid zones and
> >     work out key distribution.  but no... running around like
> >     the proverbial headless chicken seems to get the PR.
>
> Maybe someone could publish a blacklist of vulnerable recursive
> name servers, and then F-Root, the other root name servers,
> and other "popular" sites could start refusing to answer queries
> from vunerable name servers until after the blacklist operator decides 
> they've patched their recursive server sufficiently?
>
> Maybe that would get their attention and encourage them to apply
> resources to the problem?
>
> Extreme situations justify extreme measures; or how extreme do
> you believe justifies what measures?


        Knock yourself out Sean.

--bill