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From: Meritt James (meritt_jamesbah.com)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 09:43:08 CDT

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    The zap on Network Solutions demonstrated this years ago. Be careful
    about claims on originality. cache poisoning got 'em.

    Michael Tench wrote:
    >
    > Actually I recently wrote a paper on how a cracker can
    > effectively bring the net down. Perhaps later I will
    > post the entire thing on my website. Here is the brief
    > version:
    >
    > 1) The Internet has a limited number of root name
    > servers.
    > 2) An application can easilly be created to perform a
    > DOS attack on these root servers.
    >
    > Considering that most of the traffic on the net
    > requires DNS, this would eefectively bring the
    > Internet down to it's knees. This would be nearly
    > impossible to stop.
    >
    > my .04
    > Ad Astrada,
    > Michael Tench
    >
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James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA
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