Re: [ga] USG root servers under DDOS attack

[Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>]

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Hello Joe,

Monday, October 21, 2002, 7:12:08 PM, you wrote:


JB> I've been predicting this for years - along with many others.  Another
JB> good reason why we need multiple roots.

What exactly would stop an attacker from launching the same attacks
against multiple roots?  Multiple roots would not have provided any
benefits against this attack.

In addition, I would say this DDoS demonstrates that multiple roots
are unnecessary.  The vast majority of the Internet had no idea this
was happening as the root servers still responded to queries, albeit
slower than usual (but not a perceptible difference).  Given the scale
of the attack, I would say the root servers held up admirably.


allan
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Allan Liska
allan@allan.org
http://www.allan.org

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