Hi, On 10/23/02 7:31 AM, "Greg Pendergrass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's universally agreed that the articles have mostly been blown out of > proportion and dramatized, but that doesn't mean that attacks against the > root servers can't be successful. Future attacks will be stronger and more > organized. So how do we protect the root servers from future attack?
See RFC3258. > There has been a lot about what did not happen yesterday, but how about some > details about what did happen? Was it a ping flood, syn-flood, smurf, or > some combination of types? Were the zombie machines windows, linux, or both? > Some of the root servers were affected more than others, why? Was it that > there was more ddos traffic directed at them, or that they had less hardware > and network resources? I'll let others with more direct information answer this. Rgds, -drc
