John Young wrote: > > At the moment it appears that Verio's DNS server failed to > register cryptome.org as a valid domain name, whereas > jya.com was. We've placed an order to correct that.
FYI it works fine from over here & has for a while. nslookup www.cryptome.org Name: cryptome.org Address: 161.58.201.197 Aliases: www.cryptome.org nslookup jya.org Non-authoritative answer: Name: jya.org Address: 216.248.201.38 > We had ordered that the two domains be put on two different > boxes, geographically distant, to avoid both sites going > down if one was knocked out. Hey, there's WMD about > called PATRIOT. > > However, now I learn that Verio uses one DNS server for > the two boxes so an attacker needs only to throw one stone > to kill both our birds. Grrr. That is what we wanted to avoid. Do you mean that there really is only one nameserver? If so that would be a large-scale dereliction of duty for a respectable ISP. Or that there are two (or more) servers, but both your entries are on the same ones? That would be OK. > A smart sales rep assured me that this was the way to > go, after I had placed two orders for two machines to keep > them separate. No need for that he said, let me tell you > a better way. No doubt my simple-minded security method > would have been breached by some Verio setup based on > its own Japanese government spying principles, which is > to say I can't escape being terrorized by Ashcroft. > > What's the connection among Code Red, Nimda and > Carnivore? Nasty computer programs written by clever but socially deprived authors? Ken Brown
