Re: Internet vulnerabilities

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

Well, the recent jumbo AS path issue had an interesting effect of resource 
starvation on a few routers.  Still, I think the softest targets are the 
root name servers.  I was glad to hear at the Toronto NANOG meeting that 
this was being looked into from a routing perspective.  Not sure what is 
being done from a DoS perspective.


        ---Mike

At 01:56 PM 04/07/2002 -0400, Jason Lewis wrote:

> There is a lot of news lately about terrorist groups doing recon on
> potential targets.  The stories got me thinking.
>
> What are the real threats to the global Internet?
>
> I am looking for anything that might be a potential attack point.  I don't
> want to start a flame war, but any interesting or even way out there idea
> is welcome.
>
> Is it feasible that a coordinated attack could shutdown the entire net?  I
> am not talking DDoS.  What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt
> BGP on a widescale?
>
> jas