[52866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root servers DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Oct 21 17:39:05 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:38:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <080c01c27948$eea54550$3500080a@PHE>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Anyone have insight into the (seemingly) DoS attack on root-servers which
> started around 20 UTC and widened to more servers on 20:35 UTC?
>
> Not that it=B4s causing any serious operational problems but slows down t=
hings a
> lot.
You can see pretty graphs of the server performance at
http://www.root-servers.net/
http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dns.html
I don't know if the Fed's early warning system was able to warn anyone
early
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/hacking/story/0,10801,=
75248,00.html
