[ih] Re: anyone remember when the root servers were hi-jacked? (fwd)

[Randy Bush]

<urban legend>
> Things were fragile back then. That included concern over the possibility
> that NSI would go rogue. NSI controlled the master root. The one that all
> others took their data from. Jon needed to test the ability to switch to a
> different master DNS root, to make sure that there were ways to "route
> around" this concern over NSI.
> 
> That's all the test was. Jon was clear about the need for this, weeks before
> the test. All anyone needed to do was ask him, rather than engage in
> unfounded, inflammatory speculation.
> 
> The other point that folks keep forgetting is that Jon had been issuing
> operation directives for the root servers since the inception of the DNS.
> How can one "take over" something that one has been responsible for over its
> entire existence?
> 
> All of the storm and fury has been from people who have had nothing to do
> with the running of the DNS, but instead have focused strictly on the
> politics of it. (In fact, it was quite interesting to see that a year of
> federal inter-agency task force meetings -- including Magaziner's
> participation -- took place with most participants having almost no
> understanding of DNS technical basics. We had to arrange a tutorial for
> them.)
> 
> 
> d/
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