Talk:Distributed denial of service attacks on root nameservers
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[edit] date/time of October '22', 2002 attack
Although time of this attack is not explicitly stated in the article, the external links report it as starting approx:
- Internet Traffic Report's synopsis: at 1:45 pm = 13:45 (timezone?)
- News article: around 1 pm = 13:00 PDT
and of course date is always taken to be the 22nd. But another -most authoritative IMHO- external link reports time and date differently:
- D Root Server's operational report of the attack: October 21, 2002, approximately at 20:45 UTC
Ersalo 19:50, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1997 event?
There should be similiar page dedicated to July '97 event. - 3FaST 09:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- That was a technical malfunction, not an attack. Sloverlord 01:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Internet backbone
This is the same issue than on Root nameserver: According to the respective article, Internet backbone refers to the big connections and not the DNS system. Mgoerner 22:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Why the Cowherd Section?
Does the section on Colin Cowherd have anything to do with the DNS backbone? If not, it should probably be reverted.
Darthmarth37 19:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- no it doesnt, if theres an article on DDoS attacks (read:list) then i should be there
Gamersedge 18:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Impact of October 21/22 attack
"Of the thirteen servers, nine were disabled but the remaining four were able to cope." The linked citation for this fact does not support it. The source in fact states:
Some root name servers were unreachable from many parts of the global Internet due to congestion from the attack traffic delivered upstream/nearby. While all servers continued to answer all queries they received (due to successful overprovisioning of host resources), many valid queries were unable to reach some root name servers due to attack- related congestion effects, and thus went unanswered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.206.158.46 (talk) 14:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Citations
Its been 11 days since the following had both its fact and who tags put in it. I'm taking it out, if anyone has a source on those they can put it back in. 66.216.172.3 12:40, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
"This is likely due to one of the DNS root servers being under the control of the United States Department of Defense, it has however been said[Who?] that should such a situation occur it would be possible for the USA to shut down all international internet links and their internal infrastructure would be sufficient to support normal internet usage for the population and business alike.[citation needed] got all of its"
