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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. Re:Solution? by torqer · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I sincerely hope that was a joke. Ping is one of the most used, and most effective, ways to test conectivity between places on the internet

  2. Re:Solution? by obdulio · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The router should keep statistics of how many pings per second it gets. If this number suddenly goes way up, start rejecting all pings. Sure some "legal" pings will get lost.

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