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
ch data center and rack it was located in. Sameer > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog@;merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Gil Cohen > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:09 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security

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 >

"VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread Gil Cohen
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. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=620&ncid=738&e=9&u=/nf/2002 1108/bs_nf/19918 Funny read. Si