Internet slows down after DNS attack on Spamhaus

Neil Watson tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 28 14:48:52 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:39:25AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>Plain old DNS is insecure.  This is part of why DNSSEC is being pushed,
>but not very many places are using it.

I want to like DNSSEC, but its complexity is off putting. Security
should be simple. Inconvenient perhaps but still simple.

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