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Re: root servers DDoS

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Mon Oct 21 18:59:25 2002

I don't think so.  We saw problems about 15 min before the nsp-sec
list posting, and at that point the volume was turned up..

I don't beleive ICANN received any "advance" warning....

but don't quote me on that.  I'll go find out though

in private,

john brown


On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:38:32PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> > Anyone have insight into the (seemingly) DoS attack on root-servers which
> > started around 20 UTC and widened to more servers on 20:35 UTC?
> >
> > Not that it�s causing any serious operational problems but slows down things a
> > lot.
> 
> You can see pretty graphs of the server performance at
> 
> http://www.root-servers.net/
> http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dns.html
> 
> I don't know if the Fed's early warning system was able to warn anyone
> early
> http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/hacking/story/0,10801,75248,00.html
> 
> 
>