Danny McPherson is currently in a research and architecture position with Arbor Networks. Prior to joining Arbor he was with Amber Networks, and prior to that worked in network operation and architecture positions for nearly a decade; at internetMCI, Genuity (acquired by GTE Internetworking), Qwest Communications and the US Army. He has been an active participant in Internet Standardization since 1996, served on three NomComs (one of which he chaired), and currently co-chairs the PWE3 WG. His primary areas of interest are routing, operations, addressing, security, and of course, pseudowires. Danny is quite active in the network and security operations and research communities.
The folks at Renesys pointed out earlier this week some interesting activity surrounding the L-root name server, highlighting some activity that should give us all yet another reason to be concerned about the security and integrity of the Internet DNS... considering that a great deal of malware today tends to corrupt the DNS resolution path in order to further exploit compromised end-systems, and that corruption, or any other actual end-system compromise, might well be unnecessary if the root were compromised -- well, think of the possibilities! more»