{"id":47,"date":"2007-02-06T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/dns-root-servers-attacked\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T05:28:44","slug":"dns-root-servers-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/dns-root-servers-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS Root Servers Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 3 of the 13 global root servers were briefly overwhelmed in a sustained attack last night, lasting, in some cases, as long as 12 hours. Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnsmon.ripe.net\/dns-servmon\/domain\/plot?domain=root&amp;day=5&amp;month=2&amp;year=2007&amp;hour=16&amp;period=48h&amp;plot%2F=SHOW\">RIPE NCC DNS monitoring service<\/a> it seems that 2 of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnsmon.ripe.net\/dns-servmon\/server\/plot?server=g.root-servers.net&amp;type=drops&amp;tstart=1170691200&amp;tstop=1170810256\">G (US Dept of Defense)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dnsmon.ripe.net\/dns-servmon\/server\/plot?server=l.root-servers.net&amp;type=drops&amp;tstart=1170691200&amp;tstop=1170810256\">L (ICANN)<\/a> were having the most difficulty dealing with and recovering from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>At this point the attacks seem to have been aimed at UltraDNS, which primarily handles traffic for .org sites.<\/p>\n<p>While there is as yet no mention of who is suspected or what their motives may be, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/securityfix\/2006\/05\/blue_security_surrenders_but_s.html\">similar attack last year<\/a> on UltraDNS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/I\/INTERNET_ATTACKS?SITE=WIRE&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">The AP&#8217;s report is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/DNS\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">DNS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/UltraDNS\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">UltraDNS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/security\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/analysis\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 3 of the 13 global root servers were briefly overwhelmed in a sustained attack last night, lasting, in some cases, as long as 12 hours. Looking at the RIPE NCC DNS monitoring service &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,10],"tags":[176,147],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-security","tag-analysis","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}