Hackers trying to rule over the net?

[Asskick]

Well todays DDOS hitted us hard leaving our DNS record unavailable for some users, u should all blame those hackers who have nothing else to do rather than getting a real job..

From the news:

The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations.

Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.


Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Oct22.html

[FlyingDutchman]

just read it in the local newspaper too...

experts also said that it would be rather impossible to attack 'the internet' with overloading the 13 root servers...

anyway, once again is proved that nobody can stop terrorists from attacking like anything... (not saying this was a terrorist attack, but COULD be...)

[Loto_Bak]

you know what that does though? The hackers were probably trying to force more isps to not rely on key services of specific servers. Now to counteract this from happening again thoes root servers will be mirrored immediatly and will spread the users over more servers making it more difficult to disable all of them.

[Dogma]

It sort of already works that way. Of the 13 root servers, only little more than half of them (6 or 8, I forget) have to be up and running for the world at large to perceive no slowdown. Or so they reported in the news article I read.

[Loto_Bak]

more redundency is better