[kictanet] DDOS attack on Root Servers
Michuki Mwangi
michuki at swiftkenya.com
Fri Feb 9 10:50:54 EAT 2007
FYI,
Communiqué from RIPE about massive DDos attack again root servers that
happened on 6th Feb 2007:
http://www.ripe.net/news/global-root-server.html
In the press:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INTERNET_ATTACKS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
It is worth noting that Kenya is host to two Root Servers namely F-Root
and J-Root in addition to serving .COM,.NET and .KE Root zones locally.
In essence adding resilience to the local Internet infrastructure and
making it independent of the external disruptions.
Best regards,
--
Michuki Mwangi
KENIC
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