Hi Kim and all, After I posted the news to the DNS list I realised the story you're referring to was an old story. They are from February 07 and 2004 respectively.
I've posted details on the stories below. And when I realised the stories were old I deleted them from the auDA site. Apologies for that. I was going to comment in the news next week and let people know, but now you've asked... Cheers David Major attack hits internet's 'root' servers The worst attack on the internet's infrastructure in years slowed traffic using infected "zombies" computers on Tuesday. The attack involved deluging the DNS servers with meaningless traffic in an effort to render them inaccessible or cause them to crash. ... The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed its cyber-security arm had been monitoring the activity. "The nature of the traffic has not been confirmed, and the servers, which are overseas, remain operational," says spokesman Russ Knocke. http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11131 Major website blackout blamed on massive attack Some of the world's most popular internet sites suffered blackouts on Tuesday following a co-ordinated and distributed online attack. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and several other major sites faltered as a result of the attack, which started at 10:45 EST on Tuesday and lasted for over two hours. The problems were traced to Akamai, in Massachusetts, US, which provides support to the internet giants though a vast network of distributed servers for all of the sites. http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5113 ----- Original Message ---- From: Kim Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: DNS Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 16 August, 2007 11:51:22 PM Subject: Re: [DNS] domain name news - 13 August Quoting David Goldstein on Thursday August 16, 2007: | | Headlines from the 16 August edition of the news include: | Major attack hits internet's 'root' servers Do you have more information on this? I couldn't find a link, but there's been nothing anomalous to the root server network in recent times... kim ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html
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