WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

Tue Oct 22 23:29:58 UTC 2002

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:17:22PM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
> 
> Does that include Paul, who was quoted? (Okay Paul - here's your chance
> to rant about how badly they misquoted you! <Grin>) 

Ok I take it back, after actually reading the article. The quote is:

This was the largest and most complex DDOS attack ever against the root 
server system," said a source at one of the organizations responsible for 
operating the root servers. 

Which is probably completely accurate, and is certainly believable. Just 
because noone ever bothered to attack all the root servers at once before 
doesn't make the attack used anything more than piddly. Yay to creative 
editing though.

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