Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

From: David Conrad (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 21:16:58 EST

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    Mark,

    On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
    > All you have to do is move the validation to a machine you
    > control to detect this garbage.

    You probably don't need to bother with DNSSEC validation to stop the
    Verizon redirection. All you need do is run a caching server.

    > dnssec-enable yes;
    > dnssec-validation yes;
    > forward only;
    > forwarders { <Verizon's caching servers>; };

    Why bother forwarding?

    > dnssec-lookaside . trust-anchor <dlv registry>;

    You forgot the bit where everybody you want to do a DNS lookup on
    signs (and maintains) their zones and trusts and registers with <dlv
    registry> (of which there is exactly one that I know of and that one
    has 17 entries in it the last I looked). You also didn't mention
    that everyone doing this will reference the DLV registry on every non-
    cached lookup. Puts a _lot_ of trust (both security wise and
    operationally) in <dlv registry>...

    > All lookups which Verizon has interfered with from signed zones
    > will fail.

    Yeah, and Verizon customers would get a timeout (after how long?)
    instead of a more quickly returned A (or maybe a AAAA) RR to a
    Verizon controlled search engine. Not really sure the cure is better
    than the disease. Also not sure what the point is -- most common
    typos are already squatted upon and validly registered to a adsense
    pay-per-click web page, typically a search engine (e.g.,
    www.baknofamerica.com). Seems to me the slimeballs have won yet
    again...

    Regards,
    -drc


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