Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:39:25 CST, Stephen Sprunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Maybe I'm missing something... J's "virtual location" aka IP address is now > available from every DNS server in the world, not to mention the public > announcement that VeriSign made to various lists. How is this undis

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-11 Thread David Charlap
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake "Gil Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In an effort to protect the Internet from future hacking attacks, VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN - news) has moved one of the Net's root servers to an undisclosed physical and virtual location. Maybe I'm missing something... J's "virtu

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Gil Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In an effort to protect the Internet from future hacking attacks, VeriSign > (Nasdaq: VRSN - news) has moved one of the Net's root servers to an > undisclosed physical and virtual location. Maybe I'm missing something... J's "virtual location" aka IP

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread bmanning
> But seriously are there any volunteers there to run root name servers in > Europe and Asia or are people now expecting to get paid to it through > ICANN contract. last time i was offically detailed to care about such things the volunteer list was over 100. (circa 1998).

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 18:44:09 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > server (but ISPs in its region would know about and us it). Are other > regions ever considered something like this to ease load on current root > servers or perhaps as a first step to having root server there? Given the numbers prese

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread william
Perhaps we shouldn't be saying "post-ICANN" as we're in "ICANN age" now, if they were to be gone, it then be "post-ICANN" and things might even move faster (or not at all :) ... But seriously are there any volunteers there to run root name servers in Europe and Asia or are people now expectin

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Brian Wallingford
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: : :Would that be in front of, or behind Big Red (firewall)? : :Seriously...would their policies affect the integrity of the root :zone server files? Rhetorical question? :) Obviously, such a move would be unrealistic if subjective filtering could affect th

RE: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Sameer R. Manek
It won't be long till most of us on NANOG will know where geographically it's located. The network community is not that big, and thanks to the various trade related conferences fairly closely knit, that if you really wanted to know, someone at verisign will tell you which building it's in. Secre

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread bmanning
> > > The real question isn't why "J" has moved a few miles to a different > > > Verisign building, but where in the world should "J" move? > > > > i have been pushing bejing for a few years. except it would be > > nice to have built some operational understanding and trust with > > those folk f

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread bmanning
> >From tha archives, "J" was only supposed to be at NSI for a temporary > period before moving to a different location (and organization), much like > "L" and "M" moved to LINX and WIDE after a brief period at ISI and NSI. > > The real question isn't why "J" has moved a few miles to a different

RE: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
> > The real question isn't why "J" has moved a few miles to a different > > Verisign building, but where in the world should "J" move? > > i have been pushing bejing for a few years. except it would be > nice to have built some operational understanding and trust with > those folk first, per

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread David Diaz
Would that be in front of, or behind Big Red (firewall)? Seriously...would their policies affect the integrity of the root zone server files? At 15:43 -0800 11/8/02, Randy Bush wrote: The real question isn't why "J" has moved a few miles to a different Verisign building, but where in the worl

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Randy Bush
> The real question isn't why "J" has moved a few miles to a different > Verisign building, but where in the world should "J" move? i have been pushing bejing for a few years. except it would be nice to have built some operational understanding and trust with those folk first, perhaps by asking

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Daniel Golding wrote: > It's kept under Vice-President Cheney's bed. You can't get more > undisclosed than that. The Verisign delima, do they bus the politicians to undisclosed location "A" to have their pictures taken with a root server; or to undisclosed location "J" for the

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Daniel Golding
It's kept under Vice-President Cheney's bed. You can't get more undisclosed than that. - Daniel Golding On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Gil Cohen wrote: > > > In an effort to protect the Internet from future hacking attacks, VeriSign > (Nasdaq: VRSN - news) has moved one of the Net's root servers to an >