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Re: "The ISC is the Microsoft of the DNS, BIND its Windows, ..."


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:53:31 -0400

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:30:10 EDT, Jeffrey Walton said:
request. Under this scheme, the distributed, fault tolerant nature of
DNS will be nullified. That is, a government only needs to poison the
database of one cooperating operator, and other cooperating dns
operators will dutifully incorporate the changes. To make matters
worse, the poisoning will cross national/political boundaries -
something governments don't fully enjoy under the current system.

Oddly enough, BGP has exactly the same problem.

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