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Re: EMAIL != FTP
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch () netside net>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:48:41 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 26 May 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
OK.. so a hostile site *could* use DNS cache poisoning or hack the ORBS DNS servers to screw up your e-mail.
Or ORBS could take sides in an international conflict and do it themselves. I'm not the only one that said they blackhole for political reasons, or that they are extremists. No sooner were those words uttered, someone from Calcutta, India [202.86.168.81 - caltiger.com] decided to remind us that, besides the atomic bomb, they now have connected computers too.
For bonus points - if anybody is both paranoid and anal-retentive enough to care about this sort of thing, I presume you *HAVE* edited your DNS cache hints to only include root name servers that are located on US soil, and reachable entirely by communications links that do not take a loop through non-US territories.
THere *will* be hell to pay if foreign terrorists take over a root name server that's outside the US, after all....
The named.ca file provides sketchy details about locations. Meknows that F is in the care of Paul Vixie. M is in a 202 apnic block (Japan). Any others to worry about? Perhaps we should run traceroutes to all... --Mitch NetSide
Current thread:
- Re: EMAIL != FTP, (continued)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Richard A. Steenbergen (May 25)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Roeland Meyer (May 26)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Stephen J. Wilcox (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Wojtek Zlobicki (May 26)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Roeland Meyer (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Adam Rothschild (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP John Fraizer (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Valdis . Kletnieks (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 27)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 27)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Steve Sobol (May 28)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Adam Rothschild (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Scott Francis (May 27)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Sabri Berisha (May 28)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Stephen J. Wilcox (May 26)