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DNS Root Servers Attacked

Posted by kdawson on from the flexing-muscles dept.

liquidat and others wrote in with the news that the DNS Root Servers were attacked overnight. It looks like the F, I, and M servers felt the attack and recovered, whereas G (US Department of Defense) and L (ICANN) did less well. Some new botnet flexing its muscle perhaps? AP coverage is here.

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  1. Re:move along, nothing to care about by Feyr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and consider that these so called "root servers" are actually several hundreds (thousands?) of servers, in different physical locations. i think i remember mr vixie saying F alone had around 200 machines

  2. Re:Ban all Microsoft Users from the Internet... by scatters · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you kidding? I've been using Vista since RTM on my main work system and the UAC prompts are enough to either:

    1: Drive one completely insane.
    2: Insensitize one to the point where one clicks 'Yes' on any dialog that pops up.
    3: Cause one to disable UAC prompting.

    Examples:
    You want to look at the event log... well you're gonna need some extra admin priviledges. Are you sure you want to look at the event log?

    You want to run visual studio 2005... that complains too. Would someone please explain to me WTF running an IDE requires admin fucking rights!

    Microsoft's approach of security by nagging the user to death is fundamentally flawed.

    I swear, if I hadn't turned of UAC prompting, there would be a craig's list posting right now for a slighty shot-gunned compy.

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