Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-19 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 01:38:21 +0200 jfcm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Måns, your points would be well taken if we were talking of the same thing We talk about the scalability and stability of a global name-to-number system. Between us lies some disagreement on how this should be

Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Paul, and other rootserveroperators (good scrabble word :), what would your answer/problem/arguments/... be if an ISP would decide to inject routes to the root-servers into their local network and point these request to a local dns cache(s), which would have the correct routes to the the

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-19 Thread Joe Hildebrand
Configure your client so it *requires* start-tls, and it will error out if this attack is attempted. The same attack is possible against SASL, if you remove DIGEST-MD5 and add PLAIN. The defense is to configure your client to only allow non-plaintext SASL mechanisms. -- Joe Hildebrand

Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-19 Thread Joe Baptista
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: Paul, and other rootserveroperators (good scrabble word :), what would your answer/problem/arguments/... be if an ISP would decide to inject routes to the root-servers into their local network and point these request to a local dns cache(s), which

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-19 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
thanks for your comments, Pekka! wrt review subjects - we went a few rounds on this, and the current list is probably a reasonable compromise between no list and exhaustive list - it's short enough to make people notice that such as probably covers a lot of stuff not mentioned. Good that you

Re: 60th IETF - Registration

2004-05-19 Thread Ken Hornstein
We should also remember that the people don't comes just from US. When I called they (not very kindly) suggested me if I can call back in 6 hours (!) because registration services doesn't work so early. Incredible, this is having fun and supporting international guests. Just quality, hopefully

Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-19 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - I talk of real world when you talk of the current (unsecure and overloaded?) implementation of the current DNS architecture. In what way overloaded? Do you have any pointers? Proof? Data? The problem we face is an old and too large unique

Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-19 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-05-19, at 00.54, Dean Anderson wrote: On 18 May 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: The result is a service which has never been down hard, not ever, not for any millisecond out of the last 15 years. This is strength by diversity. This isn't

Re: 60th IETF - Registration

2004-05-19 Thread John Stracke
Ken Hornstein wrote: To be fair ... I've certainly experienced the same thing at non-US IETF hotels (the one that sticks out in my mind is Adelaide, but I believe there were others). I remember setting my alarm for 3:00 AM to make a reservation for Oslo. --

Re: 60th IETF - Registration

2004-05-19 Thread Ole Jacobsen
The reason there are no rooms available through the normal online reservation system is that the IETF owns a huge room block. I tried booking at the end of MARCH having a hunch it would be this hotel. Same story back then. It would of course be nice if you could enter a special code and get the

Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-19 Thread jfcm
At 18:12 19/05/04, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: - I talk of real world when you talk of the current (unsecure and overloaded?) implementation of the current DNS architecture. In what way overloaded? Do you have any pointers? Proof? Data? Dear Kurt Eric, Let not play this, please. Either you think

Re: [dnsop] Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-19 Thread Dean Anderson
This isn't really a serious resolution. It smacks exactly of the Army's response to the red cross over abuse at Abu Graib. For months, the Army has said it responded promptly to the Red Cross' written complaints. Today, in the NY Times, it was revealed what the response was: Tell us when you

Re: Response to complaint from Dean Anderson

2004-05-19 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: After re-checking with legal counsel, I repeat what I said before, trying to be as clear as possible: Bouncing a message to the sender is NOT public defamation. Not by itself, no. But that isn't the whole story of what happened. It is