[dns-operations] Defining the "be like a root" problem

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Fri May 18 20:36:43 UTC 2012


On 05/18/2012 06:14 AM, Dave Knight wrote:
> Sorry, I could have made myself more clear. The distinction I was
> making was between 'serving the root zone on your cache' and
> 'pretending to be a root server', ie hijacking the IP address of a
> real root server and pretending to be it.

Just in case it isn't already clear; I'm not now, nor would I ever,
advocate for the latter.

Doug



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