On Apr 30, 2006, at 19:25, Sander Steffann wrote:
Maybe someone 'official' should contact the BBC and try to cool this down a bit.
FWIW I have contacted the BBC asking them to present a more balanced report. I doubt anything will come of that. Even if the BBC does publish a correction it will be an uphill battle to explain the details of how DNS actually works to a puzzled BBC journalist with a deadline to meet. Niall O'Reilly said he posted something through the "have your say" feature of the BBC web site. Perhaps if others on this list did likewise....
People might get scared :) It is good that attention is given to the risks of badly secured DNS servers, but scaring the public like this...
Indeed. Though personally speaking, I don't accept Sirer's methodolody let alone his concluions about "vulnerabilities" or badly secured name servers. Which doesn't for a moment mean the DNS has no vulnerablities or badly secured servers. These do of course exist. Just not in the way Emil Gun Sirer has suggested.