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Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever"
wontonenigma writes "It seems that yesterday the root servers of the internet were attacked in a massive Distributed DoS manner. I mean jeeze, only 4 or 5 out of 13 survived according to the WashPost. Check out the orignal Washington Post Article here."
it's supposed to withstand a nuclear war?
...when someone calls up and says "Is the internet down?" you can finally say, "It was." not just to simplify it to the level that your callers can understand, but because its the truth.
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Anything that is so important that it can't be disturbed during transmission is already taken off the Internet and on its own network cable.
You don't think the military puts any critical systems on the Internet, do you?
From the article: "UUNET is the service provider for two of the world's 13 root servers. A unit of WorldCom Inc., it also handles approximately half of the world's Internet traffic." Only two servers for half the world's internet traffic? That is scary. What are the specs on those babies?
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Now I know why my Tribes 2 experience lagged last night.
I'm going to beat the crap out of that 12-year-old as soon as I find him; he made me look like I had no skillzzz.
It Couldn't have been...
I was using the computer in Afghanistan to surf pr0n.
" I couldn't load ESPN.com yesterday at school, now I know why!" ...Because you got high, because you got high, because you got high...
(It can't just have been me!)
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I know I shouldn't have pressed this button...
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Because that country invented the Internet. It's the most poweful, the most prosperous, the most democratic country in the world. Where would you rather the root servers be... Iran, Iraq, China, Russia? Use your fucking mind.
In other news, Slashdot posted a story about the internet yesterday. as a result, the internet had been completely obliterated within 5 minutes.
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I can see how that site would totally confuse Grandma.
Grandma: "I clicked the red button."
Grandson: "YOU DID WHAT?"
Grandma: "I clicked the red button and the screen
went dark."
Grandson: "NO....IT CAN'T BE! YOU NEVER CLICK THE
RED BUTTON.! DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID?"
Grandma: "Huh?"
Grandson: "YOU KILLED THE INTERNET! YOU BASTARD!"
nbfn
seriously, cool site...
the only thing missing is the goat.cx guy
A certain mil/gov organization I consult with was jumping through their own asses worried about this. The funny thing is, ummm... NOTHING CHANGED! We experienced NOTHING. I think they wanted us to do something... ANYTHING.
You know... next time this happens, I'm setting up my own root servers... errr... wait...
3cx.org - A truly bad website.
"The Domain Name System (DNS), which converts complex Internet protocol addressing codes..."
And I suppose the person who wrote this article would consider arithmetic a complex system of digits and symbols.
come on fhqwhgads
well my dad can beat up your dad.
There's only one critical file? Hey, just email it to me, I'll keep it on my hard drive. If anyone needs it, just shoot me an email.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
... Or, this just might be the work of a terrorist group launching a cyber attack, maybe even your neighbor, Billy the w0nd3rh4x0r.
... Or, maybe they just got slashdotted. Heh heh heh...
-agent oranje.
I hope for your sake that Slashdot doesn't change it's IP address any time soon then.
One would assume you still have to check periodically to see if the IP address from DNS is the same as your cached one. Either way, you are not the majority of Internet users, so for most everyone, DNS going dead == Internet going dead.
Determining whether or not kicking the majority of users off the Internet is a bad thing is left as an exercise to the reader.
The attack came in and removed some entries from bind database (we use oracle to store our bind data)..
Unbreakable.
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But I don't think they can fix uunet.
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Original Washington Post article was: "Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever"
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Followup article, after slashdot story, was: "Attack on Washington Post Called Largest Ever".
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We don't need to worry about that.
There aren't many non-idiots around, and the ones that aren't idiots are busy keeping up the slack for the idiots. So, we're in the clear.
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Did they claim your spine was out of alignment?
They might as well wear grass skirts and a bone through their nose. They make scientologist seem sensible.
I was using the computer in Afghanistan to surf pr0n.
Junis, is that you?!
A warrant
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You'd be surprised just how large my /etc/hosts file is.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
your military wanted a communications network that could survive a nuclear holocaust so that it would be the first to rebuild and conquer the world when the evil reds launched the first nuke.
Hey! They told us not to say anything about the big, hairy, World Domination Plan on my first day of basic training. Whoever told you is going to be in big trouble!
That chat log lowered my IQ by 7 points. Thanks.
And that's just a little fragment of it. I'm really worried about these guys taking over the internet!!
If someone could kindly point me to the person or persons who launched this latest DDOS attack, I would certainly appreciate it. I hold the patent on Distributed Denial-Of-Service Attacks By Electronic Means, and I will get my day in court, and royalties due to me.