Re: [ga] DNS attack this morning

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane and all,

  As I have said many times, these sort of attacks will be ongoing from
time to time unless and until ICANN and the IANA changes
it's ways...  Why ICANN and the IANA have not made this
connection is incredibly baffling to me...

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> Today, between 10:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC, the root name servers (several
> of them) and the UltraDNS servers (which host ".org", ".info" and
> other TLDs) suffered for what was apparently a large dDoS, may be the
> largest since 2002 (http://www.isc.org/ops/f-root/october21.txt).
>
> It is not completely over, the ICANN network is still under attack:
>
> http://lists.oarci.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2007-February/001220.html
>
> You can see what happens to the G root name server:
>
> http://dnsmon.ripe.net/dns-servmon/server/?server=g.root-servers.net&show=SHOW
>
> and to L:
>
> http://dnsmon.ripe.net/dns-servmon/server/?server=l.root-servers.net&show=SHOW

Regards,

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