[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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