Re: Recent Attacks

["Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist () ekahuna com>]

I suspect the root servers are far more protected and
hardened to such things than the vast majority of 
commercial web sites.

Not to mention, you'd have to bring them all down at
the same time to wreak widespread havoc.  That would
be difficult, since they are all on widely-separated
networks.

Paul Vixie as a prank once collaborated with Jon Postel 
and hijacked some of the root servers, redirected some of 
their answers (Internic's page?) to their own sites.  But 
Postel was one of the most powerful people in the 'net and 
Vixie is in charge of BIND, so they had a bit of an advantage
over your average script-kiddie. :-)


Phil



On 12 Feb 00, at 16:03, hnd () asu edu boldly uttered: 


> hi,
>
> I was just wondering that The latest attacks on the popular web sites had only
> one objective behind it: to bring the web sites and render it useless for the
> period of attack. If these hacker really do want to create massive scale
> problems why not hack the root servers?!!!!!!!  This will bring down the whole
> internet.
>
> Hoshil