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