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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. Terrorism by Slashdotess · · Score: 0, Troll

    This just might be the work of a terroist group launching a cyber attack, maybe even china? I hope we don't see more of these

  2. Re:Caching saves the day... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 1, Troll
    [the] attack was not enough to meaningfully disrupt things, unless you were asking for some oddball TLD like .su

    Oh my God! This means that Slashdot might have been without this for a few minutes. How would it ever survive!?!?!?!?!

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  3. The FBI?? Why? by XXIstCenturyBoy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can someone tell me why the oh so mighty FBI had a comment in that article? I mean its the Internet, its not owned by the US (well... hmmm no its not... I think) If the FBI as anything do say in that case, so do the Mounties, and huh the Croatian Secret Service. Blah. me is rantin again. But still. I'd like to know why the FBI is a reference in that case. Shouldnt they come up with an Int'l 'net Police or something?

  4. Explanation by chrysalis · · Score: 1, Troll

    Those that survived were running DJBDNS (ok, stupid troll)

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