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Re: Internet vulnerabilities

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Thu Jul 04 14:08:46 2002



Well, the recent jumbo AS path issue had an interesting effect of resource starvation on a few routers. Still, I think the softest targets are the root name servers. I was glad to hear at the Toronto NANOG meeting that this was being looked into from a routing perspective. Not sure what is being done from a DoS perspective.


---Mike

At 01:56 PM 04/07/2002 -0400, Jason Lewis wrote:

There is a lot of news lately about terrorist groups doing recon on
potential targets.  The stories got me thinking.

What are the real threats to the global Internet?

I am looking for anything that might be a potential attack point.  I don't
want to start a flame war, but any interesting or even way out there idea
is welcome.

Is it feasible that a coordinated attack could shutdown the entire net?  I
am not talking DDoS.  What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt
BGP on a widescale?

jas