What I would like to know is why they are giving terrorists so much credit!
They act like the "D.C. SNIPER" had to have special training, etc.... NOBODY, regardless of training will try to shoot that far without a scope. The scope makes things VERY simple! So he MIGHT have to hold his breath a moment, big deal! One person even said "well he has to account for trajectory". THEN, he talked about the power of the ammo.(limiting the need for such consideration). HERE, they say there are only 13 servers that do this on the internet. That is BULL! I have one, and many people HERE do, tucows probably has several. The "ROOT" servers don't come into play until EVERY DNS server cache in your heirarchy has expired. With my access to my machine from here probably 6 DNS caches have to expire. Maybe THAT is why I was on my system all last night, and had NO problems! THAT is why it can take weeks for a root server dns change to show up. The internet is designed this way because the bandwidth required to have 4billion servers to hit those 13 servers is just not there, and they can't handle it. Amazon, for example, probably wasn't affected for even a second. AOLs, EARTHLINKS, ALABANZAS, etc... DNS servers probably have it cached constantly. Yet news reports make it sound like one kid almost disabled world access to the internet! Steve >-- Original Message -- >From: "Alex Brecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mark Jeftovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: root servers attacked >Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:14:38 -0400 > > >http://www.msnbc.com/news/824620.asp > >Best Regards, > >Alex Brecher > >Visit us at http://www.Successfulhosting.com >We'll make your web site a success! > >Register your own domain name for only $14.99 at >http://DiscountDomainRegistry.com > >*****PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY PART OF THIS MESSAGE WHEN REPLYING***** >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Jeftovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:30 AM >Subject: root servers attacked > > >> >> Apparently there was a DoS attack on the root servers this week, but >> it went largely unnoticed (if we don't notice it, its unnoticable....;) >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/23/internet.attack.ap/ >> >> interesting.... >> >> -mark >> >> -- >> mark jeftovic >> http://www.easydns.com >> http://mark.jeftovic.net >> >> >> >
