Internet slows down after DNS attack on Spamhaus

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 08:59:37AM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> One curious line in this story says that the attack was partly enabled by
> "open DNS", which it says are "known to be insecure".
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Internet slows down after DNS attack on Spamhaus
> 
> http://gu.com/p/3emqz

Plain old DNS is insecure.  This is part of why DNSSEC is being pushed,
but not very many places are using it.

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Len Sorensen
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