{"id":23,"date":"2008-07-24T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/dns-the-sky-is-falling\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:54","slug":"dns-the-sky-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/dns-the-sky-is-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS: The sky is falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April I <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/dns-what-to-do-if-the-sky-is-falling\/\">speculated<\/a> about the impending doom of the DNS.<\/p>\n<p>Now we know what was in the works, and yes, it&#8217;s not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>My idea from april doesn&#8217;t work 1:1, as the attacker doesn&#8217;t attack a single target, sondern arbitrary other hostnames in the same domain.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I spent the last days analyzing data from .at nameserver regarding patch discipline in Austria. You can read the depressing results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cert.at\/static\/cert.at-0802-DNS-patchanalysis.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April I speculated about the impending doom of the DNS. Now we know what was in the works, and yes, it&#8217;s not a pretty picture. My idea from april doesn&#8217;t work 1:1, as the attacker doesn&#8217;t attack a single target, sondern arbitrary other hostnames in the same domain. Anyway, I spent the last days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cert","category-ietf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}