[dns-operations] ultradns managed services

[Michael Christian]

> Has anyone recently had an Ultra DNS rep try and market managed DNS
> services to them? 

Worse.  They cold-called one of our large customers
(fifaworldcup.yahoo.com), and basically trashed our DNS infrastructure
with a set of lies.

"Currently FIFA has two name servers located in the same facility and
all traffic is routed to one of these servers without any intelligent
routing logic."

What???  Total bull@#$%.

"For example, a FIFA visitor in New York will be randomly routed to one
of the 2 possible servers in Los Angels, CA."

Los Angels?  We don't even have a datacenter in Los Angels.  Or Los
Angeles for that matter.

"Currently, all that is needed to bring down the FIFA domain names is an
attack on a single IP."

Oh please, that's downright slander.

And, of course, to cap it off:

"INSERT COMPANY NAME generates a substantial amount a revenue a year
utilizing a BIND based DNS solution.  The SANS institute reports that
BIND is one of the top security vulnerabilities on the web today."


I was quite unhappy when FIFA came to us with this document asking if we
need to review the reliability of our DNS infrastructure.  

But then I figured it was probably just some idiotic sales guy (Martin
Hickey) who didn't realize that the white paper he was given was
supposed to be a *sample* of a sales presentation and didn't actually
contain real data.  

-Mike Christian