On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Boolootian wrote: > > This factoid has been proven false multiple times, in multiple forums over > > the last year. Its incredible that a CEO of a company that claims DNS > > expertise wouldn't know this was false. One particular "internet > > security" company was PINGing the root servers, and some of the root > > server operators turned off ping. The root servers themselves were > > unaffected (except maybe one operated by the US Military). > > It might be a matter of interpretation. According to > http://d.root-servers.org/october21.txt: > > 2.1. 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. > > While I'm not trying to act as Sclavos' apologist, I think you have to > be careful about how you respond to this particular claim of his. You > can't dismiss it out-of-hand. Misleading? Yes. Flat out false? You'd > have to be more convincing.
Can Sclavos prove that the same thing did not happen to Verisign's root servers? bye, ken emery