RE: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

["Sameer R. Manek" <manek () ecst csuchico edu>]

It won't be long till most of us on NANOG will know where geographically
it's located. The network community is not that big, and thanks to the
various trade related conferences fairly closely knit, that if you really
wanted to know, someone at verisign will tell you which building it's in.

Secrecy of where it's located isn't really going to stop the ddos attacks,
most packeters know how to do a traceroute, and slam the routers a few hops
in front of host. And it's kind of hard to run into a data center with a
bucket full of water anyways, even if you knew which data center and rack it
was located in.



Sameer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Gil Cohen
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:09 PM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"
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> In an effort to protect the Internet from future hacking attacks, VeriSign
> (Nasdaq: VRSN - news) has moved one of the Net's root servers to an
> undisclosed physical and virtual location.
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> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=620&ncid=738&e=9&;
u=/nf/2002
1108/bs_nf/19918

Funny read.

Signed,
Gil