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Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever"

Posted by chrisd on from the spinal-tap dept.

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."

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  1. And... by Cinematique · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's supposed to withstand a nuclear war?

    1. Re:And... by sean23007 · · Score: 5, Funny

      A subterranean bunker is designed to withstand nuclear wars, but what do you think would happen if the nuke was inside the bunker?

      Ummm... a lot more people would be safe? That is, the people who didn't fit in the bunker...

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    2. Re:And... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "A subterranean bunker is designed to withstand nuclear wars, but what do you think would happen if the nuke was inside the bunker?"

      I think everybody outside the bunker would be like "What the hell was that?!"

    3. Re:And... by phagstrom · · Score: 4, Funny
      designed to withstand nuclear wars


      It's nice to know that you do not have to quit your [favorite online game] 'just because' a nuclear war breaks out.
    4. Re:And... by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Funny
      Besides that, you would have to be a little slow of mind to be inside a fallout shelter WITH a nuclear weapon

      They'll have to pry my nuclear weapon out of my cold dead fingers. A man has a right to protect himself. Would you want to participate in a nuclear war without a nuclear weapon? Bringing a knife to a nuclear war ain't smart.

    5. Re:And... by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Funny
      I guess they would have to repair the bunker?

      Ask Slashdot: My bunker had a nuclear weapon which disassembled itself as designed. Should I repair the bunker the way it was? Or should I remodel to make use of the larger space which is now available? Is water cooling better than air chillers? What bunker mods are your favorites?

  2. And for all you tech support people out there... by fireboy1919 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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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  3. Ah ha. by puppetman · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Ah ha. by ProfessorPuke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hehe, that's the opposite of true. If anything, your performance would've increased (assuming you could reach the server at all), because other internet users were unable to expend your shared bandwidth.

  4. Re:al qaeda? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It Couldn't have been...

    I was using the computer in Afghanistan to surf pr0n.

  5. Re:That's why! by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 4, Funny

    " 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!)

    graspee

  6. OMG OMG by Doctor+Sbaitso · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know I shouldn't have pressed this button...

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  7. In other news.... by moosesocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  8. My Brain Hurts by Shamanin · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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  9. One critical by xant · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:One critical by alfaiomega · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

      OK, I'll send you my HOSTS.TXT file. But remember to update it every few weeks because the ARPAnet is growing faster then ever after the adoption of this new, fancy, so called "TCP/IP" technology.

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    2. Re:One critical by mysticalreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, you guys can rest easy, i sent xant an email. I said:

      "Hey xant,

      I've attached the critical file you alluded to in your comment at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=43025&cid=4509 265.

      Keep it on your hard drive in case we all need it. :)"

      Heh. In case his hard drive goes, maybe a couple other people should get it from here.

  10. Re:I work for JPNIC by Kragg · · Score: 5, Funny

    The attack came in and removed some entries from bind database (we use oracle to store our bind data)..

    Unbreakable.

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  11. here's one; by The+Monster · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does anyone know a good Chiropractor!?!
    Westwood Chiropractic
    4711 Mission Rd. - Westwood, KS (sub. of Kansas City), Tel: (913) 432-5678
    Good enough for a lot of professional athletes, and they straightened me up after my car wreck.

    But I don't think they can fix uunet.

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  12. Follow-up Washington Post article... by mooman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Original Washington Post article was: "Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever"

    Followup article, after slashdot story, was: "Attack on Washington Post Called Largest Ever".

    Ah.. behold the mighty power of /.

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  13. Whats the difference between a dos attack & /. by Joey7F · · Score: 5, Funny

    A warrant

    --Joey

  14. "Most sophisticated attack ever" by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah, just look at the level of discourse in the chat; if these guys are the hackers in question, they really are sophisticated! Just look at this conversation about DNS vulnerabilities:

    [09:30] <thol> poooH
    [09:31] <poooH> thol
    [09:31] <BaKaRi> poooH
    [09:31] <poooH> tee he
    [09:31] <BaKaRi> poooH
    [09:31] <poooH> awww
    [09:31] <BaKaRi> poooH
    [09:31] <thol> ahahaah
    [09:31] <s0lar1s> balaaeh nu
    [09:31] <poooH> thol
    [09:31] <BaKaRi> shit
    [09:31] <s0lar1s> wtf

    And that's just a little fragment of it. I'm really worried about these guys taking over the internet!!

    1. Re:"Most sophisticated attack ever" by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 5, Funny

      The chat is actually encrypted. If you gzip each comment, decrypt the result (56 bit encryption. Thank God for crypto export laws.), you'll see that they're actually exchanging compressed tcp/ip packets. They're using this IRC channel as a transport for their encrypted IRC session on another server, where they are coordinating their efforts to destroy Al Qaeda.

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  15. Patent Infringement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.