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

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

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