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Jemsee
10-23-2002, 09:31 AM
You guys see this?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20021023/ap_on_hi_te/internet_attack_6
Seems somone is trying to brake up the World Wide Web.
obi
10-23-2002, 11:51 AM
Hmmm, well, good thing it only lasted an hour.
Were these 'root servers'to be crippled then many things that happen in the world today, would near enough cease or become very hard to accomplice...

Granted, this could be some form of 'cyber ransom'

The plot thickens...
Paradox
10-23-2002, 03:44 PM
did you read another article linked from it where it said it was possible to destroy most of the internet in 15 minutes?
Jemsee
10-23-2002, 04:47 PM
No did not see that link, but I believe it.
To think that the WWW is handled by 13 main servers, and 9 went down during this attack. But nice to know that it was handled well. Most people didn't even know about it.
MottZilla
10-23-2002, 05:42 PM
heh. I think it's so amusing how practically no one noticed. =)
Kirby of Doom
10-23-2002, 05:59 PM
Yeah, but when was it? I was probably somewhere else at the time.
Cyclone
10-23-2002, 11:26 PM
I was at work. Otherwise, I would have noticed.

Cyclone
MottZilla
10-24-2002, 01:08 AM
The page said, 4:45 p.m. EDT Monday
Starkist
10-24-2002, 01:59 AM
As long as my website isn't taken down I'm happy. :spin:
Rammstein
10-24-2002, 10:54 PM
Bah I was at work at this time.
In fact I think it would be good thing if the www would get destroyed for a day or two, people would get off their lazy ass and we would see everyone playing outside instead of jerking off to porno 24/7
Saffith
10-24-2002, 11:08 PM
Outdside? Thbbpt, screw that. Not as long as we have all our games that don't require the internet.
MottZilla
10-24-2002, 11:10 PM
Actually if the internet were down for like 2 days, i bet a bunch of people would commit crimes, or suicide. ;p
Cyclone
10-24-2002, 11:44 PM
That may be quite possible. Web addicts. :p

Cyclone
Da Toolmasta G
10-25-2002, 10:30 AM
No. Those 13 servers are the main DNS servers, the ones which handle the conversion of IP addresses to domain names. When you type in a domain name (like armageddongames.net) into your browser, the request is sent to the DNS server and that has a record of what IP or IPs are for armageddongames.net. Then it tells your ISP to access that IP address and loads the page for you.

Those lists of domains and IP's on the 13 DNS servers are copied by thousands of Internet Service Providers and they store them on their own DNS servers. The more those sites are accessed, the more other private servers they are stored on.

Something like only 8 percent of domain name requests are only handled by the DNS servers.

Not a really smart attack since the lists are copied thousands of times over on other servers that are used more anyway :)
Ich
10-25-2002, 11:58 AM
Seems that Al Qaeda has hired some decent h@xors, or someone got bored and wanted to screw up the net. I've gone weeks without the net, so I don't think that I'd have to resort to suicide. Maybe I'd start reading again though.