This is a coordinated hacking. (Was Re: Need help in flushing DNS)

[hmurray at megapathdsl.net (Hal Murray)]

> ....at what point is the Internet a piece of infrastructure whereby we
> actually need a way to watch this thing holistically as it is one system and
> not just a bunch of inter-jointed systems? Who's job is it to do nothing but
> ensure that the state of DNS and other services is running as it
> should....who's the clearing house here.

> The Internet:  Discovering new SPOF since 1969! 
:)  Thanks.

Perhaps we should setup a distributed system for checking things rather than 
another SPOF.  That's distributed both geographically and administratively 
and using several code-bases.

In this context, I'd expect lots of false alarms due to people changing their 
DNS servers but forgetting to inform their monitoring setup (either internal 
or outsourced).

How would you check/verify that the communication path from the monitoring 
agency to the right people in your NOC was working correctly?


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