[dns-operations] [dns-wg] "DNS Vulnerabilities" paper hits the mainstream

[Jim Reid]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 19:25, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Maybe someone 'official' should contact the BBC and try to cool  
> this down a bit.

FWIW I have contacted the BBC asking them to present a more balanced  
report. I doubt anything will come of that. Even if the BBC does  
publish a correction it will be an uphill battle to explain the  
details of how DNS actually works to a puzzled BBC journalist with a  
deadline to meet. Niall O'Reilly said he posted something through the  
"have your say" feature of the BBC web site. Perhaps if others on  
this list did likewise....

> People might get scared :)  It is good that attention is given to  
> the risks of badly secured DNS servers, but scaring the public like  
> this...

Indeed. Though personally speaking, I don't accept Sirer's  
methodolody let alone his concluions about "vulnerabilities" or badly  
secured name servers. Which doesn't for a moment mean the DNS has no  
vulnerablities or badly secured servers. These do of course exist.  
Just not in the way Emil Gun Sirer has suggested.