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A practice run?
Has anyone considered the possibility that this little foray - the origins of which, we note, are still unknown - was merely a practice run by some individual or group planning a more large-scale DNS attack? Having establshed the feasibility of such an attack, might that person or (more likely) group now be planning for the real thing?

The claim that the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack actually refers to the physical infrastructure of what was originally the US government's DARPANet - the original Internet backbone. DDOS attacks didn't even exist when the basic physical infrastructure was created.

Whether the more decentralized and more easily disrupted Internet we have now can sustain a virtual attack is still an open question. A group bent on disrupting Internet commerce wouldn't have to crash the entire DSN system, just tie up enough of it to create massive digital logjams. So many companies now rely so heavily on fast and reliable data delivery via the public Internet that it probably wouldn't be that difficult to have a major impact.

I really hope *someone* is taking this into account.
Posted by: the_doge   Posted on: 02/07/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Ever wonder why?  Graham Fluet | 02/06/07
Notice, thse servers do NOT run Windows.  DonnieBoy | 02/07/07
Notice these (sic) servers do NOT run Mac OS X Server  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Stupid Responses  Free_Thinker | 02/07/07
Re: Stupid Responses  Uncle Buck | 02/07/07
My retort was a rebuke to DonnieBoy...  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Umm...  jjarman | 02/07/07
not so much...  doas777 | 02/07/07
huh? attack doesn't vary but response and ability to handel does!  jjarman | 02/07/07
Thanks. There are some think you could throw up any old OS and it would not  DonnieBoy | 02/07/07
Oh puh-LEEZE!  James T. Kirk | 02/07/07
poor janeway and cisco...  jjarman | 02/07/07
So, in your opinion...  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Jeez, Milly... it was a joke.  James T. Kirk | 02/07/07
My bad!  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Excuse me, the OS for a critical part of the internet is VERY important,  DonnieBoy | 02/07/07
I agree.  swoopee | 02/08/07
OSX would make a great server OS for DNS, but there is limited hardware  DonnieBoy | 02/07/07
These servers run...  ehwood | 02/10/07
What the servers run...  Raymond Danner | 02/07/07
o.s. obsession/prejudice  RDrr | 02/07/07
A practice run?  the_doge | 02/07/07
TCP/IP  doas777 | 02/07/07
Practice Run  shealanon@... | 02/07/07
DRDoS  ehwood | 02/10/07
Thank you , Z-Dnet, ...  bob in FL | 02/07/07
CNET is NOT a real-time monitoring site  sfortuna@... | 02/07/07
Michael A. Redwine  michael.redwine@... | 02/07/07
So what is a work around?  LittleGuy | 02/07/07
won't work  doas777 | 02/07/07
Alternate DNS Service?  pj_mouse | 02/07/07
Nope, they too have to get the updated information from the root servers.  DonnieBoy | 02/07/07
...my ISP's DNS has too many problems.  swoopee | 02/08/07
THE SERVER ATTACK COULD BE STOPPED  BALTHOR | 02/07/07
contraversy  doas777 | 02/07/07
The UN could pass a resolution... next year NT  rgranger | 02/07/07
Lordy, lordy...  Mr_Wizard | 02/07/07
Suppose the servers do go down.  interested_amateur@... | 02/07/07
DNS is a distributed system  swoopee | 02/08/07
pretty much  kamahl928 | 02/08/07
DNS under attack all the time  Sxooter_z | 02/09/07

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