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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."

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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. Distributed DOS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about FreeDOS? It free (both price and freedom), and it's the only legal way to flash your BIOS now that Windoze XP get rid of MS-DOS once and for all.

  3. Internet Information Server? eh?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is it true that the root servers all run IIS??

  4. 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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  5. Let's DDOS the root server! by thelinuxking · · Score: -1, Troll

    Even though the DDOS root server survived yesterday, I'm sure its still vulnerable. BTW, here are some links that you Slashdotters might find interesting...be sure to click on them many times; they may not work right if you don't:

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    Verisign, home of the root server.

  6. Re:One critical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Python. If you code in anything else, you're a crack-addicted monkey whore.

    Python. Unless you're coding in anything else, you're a cock-sucking goat ass.

  7. Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually you can view googles cache of a jpeg that shows really well how the internet handles DDoS attacks. Google Cache [google.com] It is really interesting!

  8. 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?

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

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

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