root servers DDoS

Mon Oct 21 21:38:32 UTC 2002

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´s causing any serious operational problems but slows down things 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