Recently Palestinian hackers have responded to an israeli hacker
distributed denial of service attack against a palestinian web site
by launching DDOS attacks against israeli sites.
It would be interesting to see if the palestinians attack the israeli
country code domain .il - they certainly would do more damage if they
attacked the israeli cctld dns servers. All israeli sites would end up
disappearing from the internet. Of course a simular attack could be
launched against the USG roots for a bigger bang - but it would be a
slightly more difficult task.
According to dig - which see attached printout - the isralis operate their
primary servers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv
University. They also have secondary service via RIPE, PSGnet (Randy
Bush) and NAP. RIPE might require some effort to take out, but with a
good DDOS and several million dns spoofs would take the israeli cctld
offline.
It's a good thing no one on the arab side has figured it out yet.
ipip:~# dig @ARISTO.TAU.AC.il. il. soa
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @ARISTO.TAU.AC.il. il. soa
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; il, type = SOA, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
il. 1D IN SOA
relay.huji.ac.il. bindmaster.relay.huji.ac.il. (
2000102601 ; serial
1D ; refresh
4H ; retry
6W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
il. 1D IN NS relay.huji.ac.il.
il. 1D IN NS aristo.tau.ac.il.
il. 1D IN NS ns.ripe.net.
il. 1D IN NS ns2.nap.net.
il. 1D IN NS rip.psg.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
relay.huji.ac.il. 1D IN A 128.139.6.1
aristo.tau.ac.il. 1D IN A 132.66.32.10
ns.ripe.net. 3h19m6s IN AAAA ::ffff:193.0.0.193
ns.ripe.net. 1d13h47m41s IN A 193.0.0.193
ns2.nap.net. 1d13h47m46s IN A 206.54.224.1
rip.psg.com. 1d13h47m52s IN A 147.28.0.39
;; Total query time: 241 msec
;; FROM: ipip to SERVER: ARISTO.TAU.AC.il. 132.66.32.10
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 27 18:25:18 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 20 rcvd: 300
regards
joe
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