Re: The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

Man in the middle rewriting of DNS query responses is the only thing I
can think of.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Fred Baker <fred () cisco com> wrote:
> I have read the article and the list, and I'm puzzled. It's pretty clear that the root gets its records from a common 
> source, and that the copies of them being delivered by a given root server were different. As a result, traffic 
> intended to go place A went to place B if the TLD lookup happened to go to the particular root server in question. 
> How did an instance of the root server find itself serving changed records? While there is no obvious indication of 
> who made the change or for what reason, it's unlikely it was accidental.



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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)