[52872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root servers DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Richardson)
Mon Oct 21 18:50:25 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: matthew-l@itconsult.co.uk (Matthew Richardson)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: matthew-l@itconsult.co.uk
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 itīs causing any serious operational problems but slows down
> things a lot.
We have automated monitoring on the root servers and have been seeing
exactly the same thing from the UK, from multiple locations, starting from
the same time.
Best wishes,
Matthew
