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More Info on the October 2002 DNS Attacks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lag-time dept.

MondoMor writes "One of the guys who invented DNS, Paul Mockapetris, has written an article at ZDnet about the October '02 DNS attacks. Quoting the article: "Unlike most DDoS attacks, which fade away gradually, the October strike on the root servers stopped abruptly after about an hour, probably to make it harder for law enforcement to trace." Interesting stuff."

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  1. Damn terrorists... by Quaoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    First they kill 3000 people...then they deny us the Internet for a COUPLE HOURS! This time...it's PERSONAL!

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  2. Solution? by Brain$torm · · Score: 4, Funny

    The solution would be just to get rid of the ping command ;)

    1. Re:Solution? by paganizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just a little advice:
      Don't say stuff like that on slashdot.

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    2. Re:Solution? by susano_otter · · Score: 3, Funny
      Yeah, but if we abolish ping, then the terrorists would have to use pr0n to bring down the Internet!

      Not only would this directly contradict pr0n's charter of advancing telecommunications technology, but it would also inevitably lead to the banning of pr0n... and nobody wants that.

      For the sake of our pr0n, let the terrorists have their ping!

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  3. Why we need to abandon DNS by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are barely any decent clients, the entire back-end of DNS is horribly managed, most servers suck, and the protocol is un-Godly with horrific syntactic and semantic instructions.

    Someone please invent an upgrade to this archaic system so attacks like the one featured in this article no longer happen.

    SMTP should be thrown out the window too, but a replacement for that is even further away than one for DNS.

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  4. In other news.... by Malicious · · Score: 5, Funny
    Meanwhile, Theives broke into a local jewlery store, then left.

    Unfortunatley, the theives didn't wait for law enforcement officials to show up, making it much harder to identify them.

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    1. Re:In other news.... by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

      The analogy might be more like a cereal killer who mysteriously stops after a few crimes

      How is it a crime to kill cereal?

      Yeah, I guess it's a bit agressive, but hardly a crime. They come up with all sorts of weight watching schemes these days and I suppose cereal killing is just one in the crowd. And just like many other such schemes, this proves that method doesn't work very well, since he suddenly stopped.

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  5. Hrrrmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...the October strike on the root servers stopped abruptly after about an hour, probably to make it harder for law enforcement to trace."

    Hrrrrmmm. That makes it look deliberate. Hrrrrmmm.

  6. Disclaimer! by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny
    Don't try this at home kids. (Use someone else's home, Narf!)

    I guess that I shouldn't worry, unlike script-kiddie h4x0rs, Slashdot users are intelligent, wise .. , never do stupid things .. , never abuse the system .. oh shit

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  7. CRIKEY! Script Kiddie Hunter! by MyHair · · Score: 3, Funny
    For an amusing tale of how a popular (although not always loved) windows security guy did just that, go here. ["here" linked to GRC.com article]

    I hadn't read that guy's site in a while because it's too alarmist. But I read the linked GRC article and found roughly 5-15% useful text among all of that. The IRC log was priceless; ^^boss^^ was stupid if he was surprised someone could've figured that out how to locate and connect to his IRC server. (I'm not necessarily dissing Gibson with that stament, though; he's alarmist but is fairly knowledgable although he can sound fairly stupid at points, too.)

    What struck me is how much his articles read like Crocodile Hunter:

    CRIKEY!! I've been DDoS'ed by SCRIPT KIDDIES' WIN9x ZOMBIES!! Lucky for me they weren't Win2k or WinXP zombies or I'd be DEAD!!

    [Imagine the following text centered, large, bold and in a different color]

    Soon the proliferation Win2k and WinXP will allow make the world a far more dangerous place to live!


    etc., etc..

    I actually enjoy Crocodile Hunter, though.