root servers DDoS
John M. Brown
john at chagresventures.com
Mon Oct 21 22:57:28 UTC 2002
I don't think so. We saw problems about 15 min before the nsp-sec
list posting, and at that point the volume was turned up..
I don't beleive ICANN received any "advance" warning....
but don't quote me on that. I'll go find out though
in private,
john brown
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:38:32PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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