Re: [ga] USG root servers under DDOS attack

[Joe Baptista <baptista@dot-god.com>]

allan - i've continued to investigate this incident and i can tell you the
attacks were by amatuers.  According to vixie it was an icmp based DDOS -
now if I wanted to do any damage I would of initiated a UDP reflector
attack against the dns operating on those root servers.

i smell something fishy here paul - just in time for china.

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Allan Liska wrote:

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> Hello Joe,
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> Monday, October 21, 2002, 7:12:08 PM, you wrote:
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> 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
> - --
> Allan Liska
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