Re: [atlarge-discuss] FYI: VERISIGN TAKES STEPS TO PROTECT ROOT SERVERS

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 21:24 07/11/02, espresso@e-scape.net said:
> I guess it's naive of me to wonder why the two servers wouldn't have been 
> placed in separate locations before the hack attack -- it's not as if 
> power outages were that uncommon, after all
Dear Judyth,
power outages are not the real issue - unless there is a real crisis (for 
example last year Presidential Warning about Three Miles Islands: that 
could have mean a power havoc for a long time creating real problems). The 
real issue is were they are on the backbone.

What is extremely interesting is that rihgt now we have two K root servers 
in real life environement. They did not moved the machine, they duplicated 
it planning to remove the old K, now the Kbis., at a latter stage. So the 
root actually has 14 machines....

One should decide if the root system can be or not duplicated (this is now 
the case: 13 + 1) and if this is secure or not (the second root is 
implemented for ... security reasons).

In a few days/weeks we will see a few others root systems implemented ... 
to respond to the dot-root project. The target is to test if it is possible 
to accustom the ISPs to an  USG root system multiplicty so they do not 
think there could also be a multiple country multiplicity (dot-root test bed).
jfc






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