On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@icann.org> wrote:
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John, In discussions that I had with Ken Silva, Verisign's CSO, he stated that they take DDoS attacks very seriously. I am under the impression that a serious attack could really do some damage. On the other hand, a serious attack would probably need some very good motivation, as I don't think that the cost of it would be trivial. So, my personal feeling would be rather that the possibility of a DoS is rather unlikely than impossible. But that, as I said, is just my impression as a non-technical person.
Your non-technical persona is displaying an appropriate level of ignorance common to ICANN directors. They get DoS attacks all the time. There have been items dealing with one or more of their gtld servers under attack. But non of these attacks has ever been successful. regards joe baptista
Cheers, Roberto
-----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of John R. Levine Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:00 To: At-Large Worldwide Cc: Ga Subject: Re: [At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack
The issue here is that a successful attack against the .com servers would take out most of the internet since the technical infrastructure is so heavily dependent on the the .com zone. Any dummy should understand that.
We know. Fortunately VRSN is a lot more technically sophisticated than Netsol, and I would be quite surprised if anyone managed to DDoS them successfully.
I know some of the people who run the DNS servers, and they have a variety of tricks up their sleeve that make them a lot more resilient than you might think. No, I can't tell you what they are.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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