[Starlink] fiber IXPs in space
Rodney W. Grimes
starlink at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Mon Apr 17 10:38:52 EDT 2023
> 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
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