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The Root of All E-Mail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the must-keep-safe dept.

wiredog writes "A Washington Post story about the DNS, the VeriSign NOC, and some of the security therein." Especially interesting in light of the recent security lockdowns throughout much of the Western world. The havoc of losing the A root server would be bad, like Staypuft Marshmallow Man bad.

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  1. email by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    email is evil

  2. poppleface by First_In_Hell · · Score: -1, Troll

    popples are evil

    My purple popple took a foul dump on my Linux machine this morning. It caused the internet to slow down by 0.13%. representing 1/155454545454th of the DNS traffic over the tri-state area.

    this would not be a problem if said popple was running Windows 98.

    Linux is gay.

  3. it's amazing how they worry about one root server by keithmoore · · Score: 0, Troll

    and completely fail to worry about the company that runs it. an attack on the net by VeriSign is much more likely to succeed than an attack on the root servers by terrorists.

    oh wait. the attack already happened, and that's why VeriSign retains effective control over the root and manages to impose a tax on every .COM, .ORG, or .NET domain name.

  4. Re:All Your A Root Server Are Belong To Us! by limbostar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, that's the least funny parody of an old joke I've ever read.

    I have to go wash my brain now.

    --
    this is a sig.