North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Six million ways to crash
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:10:43PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote: > In nearly a century of international telecommunications, the number > of deliberate attacks on the infrastructure itself is amazingly small. > Historically, network engineers have been more dangerous to the > infrastructure than malicious actors. The telephone system, credit > card system, electric grid and so forth all have significant infrastructure > vulnerabilities. You should work for NIPC. :-) > > Obviously it's pretty hard to add additional servers but has the option of > > splitting the current group into multiple distributed machines with the > > same ip (like how these other DNS organisations are doing) been looked at? > > I haven't physically seen all the root servers, but the volunteers > operating the servers take their task seriously. There are a lot more > than 13 physical machines. Of course, Murphy is always on the prowl, and > there isn't a real effective way to protect against a DDOS. If there > was a way to protect your server, I think the IRC people would have > already implemented it. IRC isn't all bad. There's a few good users. Maybe four. -- i am jamie at arpa dot com .. and this is my .sig. core1.dns.microsoft.com# sho access-list 101 Extended IP access list 101 deny udp any any eq domain (874572345872345 matches)
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