Talk:Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers

Overview - grammar
I would fix it, but I cannot make any sense of this sentence: The root nameservers are critical infrastructure components of the Internet, mapping domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) gooing to and other information 111.69.248.25 (talk) 20:15, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

date/time of October '22', 2002 attack
Although time of this attack is not explicitly stated in the article, the external links report it as starting approx: and of course date is always taken to be the 22nd. But another -most authoritative IMHO- external link reports time and date differently:
 * Internet Traffic Report's synopsis: at 1:45 pm = 13:45 (timezone?)
 * News article: around 1 pm = 13:00 PDT
 * D Root Server's operational report of the attack: October 21, 2002, approximately at 20:45 UTC

Ersalo 19:50, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

1997 event?
There should be similiar page dedicated to July '97 event. - 3FaST 09:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That was a technical malfunction, not an attack. Sloverlord 01:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Internet backbone
This is the same issue than on Root nameserver: According to the respective article, Internet backbone refers to the big connections and not the DNS system. Mgoerner 22:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Why the Cowherd Section?
Does the section on Colin Cowherd have anything to do with the DNS backbone? If not, it should probably be reverted.

Darthmarth37 19:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Gamersedge 18:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * no it doesnt, if theres an article on DDoS attacks (read:list) then i should be there

Impact of October 21/22 attack
"Of the thirteen servers, nine were disabled but the remaining four were able to cope." The linked citation for this fact does not support it. The source in fact states: Some root name servers were unreachable from many parts of the global Internet due to congestion from the attack traffic delivered upstream/nearby. While all servers continued to answer all queries they received (due to successful overprovisioning of host resources), many valid queries were unable to reach some root name servers due to attack- related congestion effects, and thus went unanswered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.206.158.46 (talk) 14:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

The citation that the statement: "Of the thirteen servers, nine were disabled but the remaining four were able to cope." was gained from was this http://www.internettrafficreport.com/event/2.htm. I personally will not put it back in in case of dispute, but that's where the statement came from. 98.202.145.152 (talk) 06:45, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I think the situation seen from the Internet Traffic Report might have looked like that, but it was not necessarily a true picture. I tend to believe Vixie's later analysis over an ITR snap analysis. --Alvestrand (talk) 16:14, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

any news on "Operation Global Blackout 2012"?
I think this should be updated with some news - as to whether it turned out to be just a very "successful" trolling (and thus probably should be removed as unworthy of mention), or there actually were some attacks? I personally saw some slightly over the usual website errors, but have no idea if it was just a coincidence or an actual effect of the attack. 212.93.105.40 (talk) 11:33, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

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