4 responses

• todd May 19, 2008
   

  This is either shocking or completely unsurprising, depending upon one's expectations for the integrity of the Internet. I understand that earl and his team at Renesys found a number of other hijackings (or at least "not obviously authorized originations") for other root name servers while they were looking at this case. I'd love to see the details for those published, too.

   
• bj May 19, 2008
   

  I'm running three root servers. Doesn't everyone?

   
• Jim Cowie May 19, 2008
   

  Hey, you don't want to be the last kid on the block running his own copy of L root!

   
• todd May 19, 2008
   

  over at the renesys blog, bill manning says that the reason to operate a name server at the site is to collect data for DITL-2008. seems plausible, but still disconcerting.