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Re: rpki vs. secure dns?


From: Matthias Waehlisch <waehlisch () ieee org>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:55:08 +0200


  line 408 ff. in the IETF 83 SIDR minutes

  * http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/minutes/minutes-83-sidr.txt



Cheers
  matthias

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Paul Vixie wrote:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/27/2039237/engineers-ponder-easier-fix-to-internet-problem

"The problem: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enables routers to
communicate about the best path to other networks, but routers don't
verify the route 'announcements.' When routing problems erupt, 'it's
very difficult to tell if this is fat fingering on a router or
malicious
<http://www.itworld.com/security/272320/engineers-ponder-easier-fix-dangerous-internet-problem>,'
said Joe Gersch, chief operating officer for Secure64, a company that
makes Domain Name System (DNS) server software. In a well-known
incident, Pakistan Telecom made an error with BGP after Pakistan's
government ordered in 2008 that ISPs block YouTube, which ended up
knocking Google's service offline
<http://slashdot.org/story/08/02/25/1322252/pakistan-youtube-block-breaks-the-world>.
A solution exists, but it's complex, and deployment has been slow. Now
experts have found an easier way."

this seems late, compared to the various commitments made to rpki in
recent years. is anybody taking it seriously?




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