DNS trouble at the NSA

May 17th, 2008

Looks like the NSA had some DNS troubles recently. I didn’t know that this also happened to YouTube; I read in IPJ that there was a YouTube problem related to a BGP announcement, but maybe that’s a different incident.

I don’t really get why the article states that it’s embarrassing for the NSA. – After all the most secure server is one that is offline and I hope not too much critical business at the NSA is done using e-mail over the Internet, but it might be annoying to call the next pizza place instead of ordering it online ;-)

Posted by gpoul at 1:29pm CET Filed in Networks
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2 Responses to “DNS trouble at the NSA”

  1. wnagele Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 2:47pm CET

    i think it is _very_ embarassing if the details about their dns server setup are true. hope the nsa is not part of the cyber defense group that currently is being quoted everywhere. :)

  2. gpoul Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 2:59pm CET

    @Wolfgang: Well, I wouldn’t take this article too seriously ;-)

    nsa.gov. 86400 IN NS topscale.nsa.gov.
    nsa.gov. 86400 IN NS romulus.ncsc.mil.