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Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role]

  • From: Joseph S D Yao
  • Date: Tue Apr 03 18:55:28 2007

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:29:27PM +0100, Sam Stickland wrote:
...
> Maybe it would make sense for someone to reiterate what types of abuse 
> DNS is facilitating? I believe what Gadi was getting at was mainly the 
> ability to use fake details to register a domain, and then very rapidly 
> cycling the A records through a wide range of hosts, attempting to avoid 
> detection. As opposed to there actually being fundamental flaws open to 
> abuse in a system that maps names to IP addresses.
...


Which is mostly a policy / procedure problem rather then a DNS problem,
eh?


-- 
Joe Yao
Analex Contractor