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> 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 Internet due to congestion from the attack traffic delivered > upstream/nearby. While all servers continued to answer all queries they > received (due to successful overprovisioning of host resources), many > valid queries were unable to reach some root name servers due to attack- > related congestion effects, and thus went unanswered. > > While I'm not trying to act as Sclavos' apologist, I think you have to > be careful about how you respond to this particular claim of his. You > can't dismiss it out-of-hand. Misleading? Yes. Flat out false? You'd > have to be more convincing. > Sorry, Mark, but we can. The congestion did not take down 9 of 13 servers, which was Scalvos claim. It did severely impact ALL Internet traffic and traffic to/from DNS servers was a part of it. He did not say that some people could not resolve names. In fact, he says that they could. He is quoted as saying: "It should scare people that nine of the 13 went down." No equivocation in that statement. No accuracy, either. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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