North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Interesting new dns failures
On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Ulevitch wrote: > <snip> > These questions, and more (but I'm biased to DNS), can be solved at the > edge for those who want them. It's decentralized there. It's done the > right way there. It's also doable in a safe and fail-open kind of way. > > This is what I'm talking about. Agreed. > > After all, nobody's security being affected by the edge of some end-user > > machine on the other side of the world is irrelevant to my edge > > security. FUSSP. > > > > DNS abuse is mostly not an edge issue. > > I disagree. DNS is the enabler for many many issues which are edge > issues. (Botnets, spam, etc) There you did it, you said the B word. Now all the off-topic screamers will flame. :) Botnets, spam, etc. are symptoms, and DNS is abused to help them along. DNS abuse, i.e. abuse of DNS, is a DNS issue. David, we agree - just talking of similar issues which are.. different. Gadi.
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