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Re: DNS Server domains was Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Tue Jan 17 11:32:50 2006

In message <[email protected]>, Simon Waters writes:
>

>
>I think the general consensus in the DNS field is that for security reasons it
>is preferable to have as small a set of DNS servers (or perhaps as small as 
>set of differently configured servers! Hmm physical security....) in the 
>hierarchy above you as possible, since compromise of any of these could 
>affect the results obtained for your domain.
>

See http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/tech/ramasubramanian.html


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb