http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html
Quotes Stratton Sclavos:
The DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks last October on the root
system--hey, there are 13 global copies of that, and they're all
operating. It should scare people that nine of the 13 went down. It's time
for the
This factoid has been proven false multiple times, in multiple forums over
the last year. Its incredible that a CEO of a company that claims DNS
expertise wouldn't know this was false. One particular internet
security company was PINGing the root servers, and some of the root
server
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http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html
Quotes Stratton Sclavos:
The DDOS (distributed denial
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Boolootian wrote:
This factoid has been proven false multiple times, in multiple forums over
the last year. Its incredible that a CEO of a company that claims DNS
expertise wouldn't know this was false. One particular internet
security company was PINGing the
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:47:35 -0700
From: Mark Boolootian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It might be a matter of interpretation. According to
http://d.root-servers.org/october21.txt:
2.1. Some root name servers were unreachable from many parts of the
global
Sean,
SD Historically, the only wide-spread failures have been due to NSI operators
SD screwing up the COM or NET zone files. Historically, the other network
SD operators have needed to pick up the load when NSI fell down.
SD NSI controls two root servers. Perhaps its time to split those up
http://d.root-servers.org/october21.txt:
2.1. 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
I'm going to play journalist for a while and make some calls.
Ok, first part of my mission is a success. I spoke with a Jim Hock from
Bite Communications (Verisign's PR firm), very nice conversation, started
out with Verisign's concerns, then we spoke a little bit on the issues
people have
oops!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (me) wrote:
... that's why ultradns, and nominum
before that, and several root server operators, are using anycast routing.
i meant ultradns, and nominum before they sold their dns ops biz to ultradns
obviously ultradns was doing it before nominum was doing it.
