[Starlink] fiber IXPs in space

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, David Fern?ndez via Starlink wrote:
> 
> > The idea would be that the satellite inspects IP packets and when it
> > detects a DNS query, instead of forwarding the packet to ground
> > station, it just answers back to the sender of the query.
> 
> This would be a bad way to implement it. You don't want to override queries to 
> other DNS servers, but it would be very easy to create an anycast address that 
> is served by the satellites.

Yes, and the later is what I proposed, the idea of intercepting
someone ELSE'S anycast address and processing it would be
wrong in many ways, in effect a Man In the Middle attack
as stated else where.

> David Lang
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org