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."

Comments

Re:That's why!

[i_need_no_nick]

I can't download my pr0n or non-blindness-inducing newsgroups...

My money's on the companies that make porn mags; they probably decided to take out the net for a day and thus gain record sales!

Bastards!!!

duh.

[WebMasterJoe]

A longer, more extensive attack could have seriously damaged worldwide electronic communications, the source said.

Wow. I didn't realize a bigger attack could have done more damage. Thanks, Washingtonpost dot com!

Stories like these.....

[mao che minh]

Stories like these should make all of us involved in IT really make a push away from easily exploited systems like Microsoft operating systems and the applications/services that run on them. This is not an anti-Microsoft troll, but just the truth in these days and times: we all know the most common targets, we all know what is the most insecure. We should start vocally opposing Microsoft solutions by our management, both the well being of our networks, and the Internet in general.

Who did it?

[LowellPorter]

I was thinking along the lines of North Korea, Iraq, Al Qeada or any other militant islamic terrorist types.

Any one else have ideas?

Stuck in my head ....

[bizitch]

(Simpsons Comic Book Store Guy Voice)... "Largest DDOS attack ever"

Big friggin deal...

[Mysticalfruit]

Everybody and their mother's ISP has their own DNS server anyway. Just because the root node servers take a wacking for a day doesn't mean shit. That is the beauty of the internet. Even the "centeralized" services really aren't that centeralized...