[dns-operations] renesys blog: Identity Theft Hits the Root Name Servers

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at cisco.com
Wed May 21 15:11:01 UTC 2008


On May 21, 2008, at 9:36 PM, David Conrad wrote:

> You are aware, of course, that at least two caching name servers  
> have the IP addresses in code already, right?

Yes, but that's unavoidable in either scenario.

> And invent a new protocol, implement it, redeploy every caching  
> server on the planet, watch for security bugs, etc.


Or DNSSEC - oh, wait, same set of issues.

;>

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