[149952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Fri Feb 17 03:44:53 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:43:53 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPiURgUGbx0mV65vUXqSC+YdUjnAPpGAZ=kC1Z_bCZH5nx1-JQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:40:47PM -0600,
Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com> wrote
a message of 23 lines which said:
> If i remember right, another group tried to take down the root
> servers within the past 5 or 6 years and only took out around 20 or
> 25.
No need to remember, Wikipedia does it for you
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_denial_of_service_attacks_on_root_nameservers>.
