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Re: False information: CEO of Versign facts are wrong

  • From: ken emery
  • Date: Fri Oct 17 13:23:25 2003 
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Boolootian wrote:

> > This factoid has been proven false multiple times, in multiple forums over
> > the last year. Its incredible that a CEO of a company that claims DNS
> > expertise wouldn't know this was false. One particular "internet
> > security" company was PINGing the root servers, and some of the root
> > server operators turned off ping.  The root servers themselves were
> > unaffected (except maybe one operated by the US Military).
>
> It might be a matter of interpretation.  According to
> http://d.root-servers.org/october21.txt:
>
>    2.1. Some root name servers were unreachable from many parts of the
>    global Internet due to congestion from the attack traffic delivered
>    upstream/nearby.  While all servers continued to answer all queries they
>    received (due to successful overprovisioning of host resources), many
>    valid queries were unable to reach some root name servers due to attack-
>    related congestion effects, and thus went unanswered.
>
> While I'm not trying to act as Sclavos' apologist, I think you have to
> be careful about how you respond to this particular claim of his.  You
> can't dismiss it out-of-hand.  Misleading?  Yes.  Flat out false?  You'd
> have to be more convincing.

Can Sclavos prove that the same thing did not happen to Verisign's
root servers?

bye,
ken emery