root servers DDoS

Mon Oct 21 23:49:00 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.

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