[IP] more on Big holes in net's heart revealed

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Carl Malamud <carl@media.org>
Date: April 30, 2006 9:05:35 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Big holes in net's heart revealed

Hi Dave -

Here is their paper in case anybody wants to read the details:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/papers/dnssurvey.pdf

A simple takeaway ... upgrade your nameserver.  There is no excuse
to be running 5-year old versions of software on a machine that
provides critical infrastructure.

Carl

> Something "well known" but not advertised till now. djf
>
>
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>
> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@WARPSPEED.COM>
> Date: April 30, 2006 5:11:08 AM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@WARPSPEED.COM>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Big holes in net's heart revealed
> Reply-To: dewayne@WARPSPEED.COM
>
>   Big holes in net's heart revealed
> By Mark Ward
> Technology Correspondent, BBC News website
>
> Simple attacks could let malicious hackers take over more than one-
> third of the net's sites, reveals research.
>
> The finding was uncovered by researchers who analysed how the net's
> addressing system works.
>
> They also found that if the simple attacks were combined with so-
> called denial-of-service attacks, 85% of the net becomes vulnerable
> to take-over.
>
> The researchers recommended big changes to the net's addressing
> system to tackle the vulnerability at its heart.


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