Raaaahhh, We May Not Be Here Now If They Were Successful

[Guest Durrty Boi]

The DNS Backbone DDoS Attacks have been several significant Internet events in which distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) have targeted one or more of the thirteen DNS root servers. These attacks are extremely significant, as the root nameservers function as the Internet backbone, translating text-based Internet hostnames into IP addresses. As the nameservers provide this service for DNS lookups worldwide, attacks against the root nameservers are attempts to disable the Internet itself, rather than specific websites.

October 22, 2002The first attack occurred on October 22, 2002, and lasted for approximately one hour. Of the thirteen servers, nine were disabled but the remaining four were able to cope.This event was the first significant attack directed at trying to disable the Internet itself, instead of specific websites. The largest malfunction of the DNS servers before this event were seven machines in July 1997, due to a technical problem.February 6, 2007A second attack occurred on February 6, 2007. The attack began at 10:30 UTC, and lasted about five hours. Although none of the servers crashed, two of the root servers reportedly "suffered badly", while others saw "heavy traffic". The botnet responsible for the attack has reportedly been traced to South Korea.On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nationââ¬â¢s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source." This is likely due to one of the DNS root servers being under the control of the United States Department of Defense.

[Dan.]

lolwaste to me

[Guest Durrty Boi]

kinda liek what someone tried to do 2 vip2 in its early daysbut on a larger scale

[SailorMoon]

...Indeed...

[Brukfoot]

Lol @ getting bombed because you hacked people

[Guest Durrty Boi]

couple of the 13 dns servers are owned by the us government, they prob use them for military purposes n sh*t, so if that goes down, its major

[Guest asclepius]

Theres me thinking you were going to talk about a hidden race of super animals who attacked but it was covered up by the government...

[Ego]

internet waroh gosh

[revs]

we need the digimon dudes to sort this out

[CRLS AGAIN]

I fear the worst for my favourite torrent site.OH MY GOD.It's gone.NOOOOOOOOOOf*cking PRICKS.They've been getting DDoS'd for time now.It's finally happenedthey're gonearghhhhhHOW f*cking WEIRDIt was working yesterdayLooked @ this threadthen went to check my baby was alright in a new tab after I typed the first sentence of this postand it's not workingwtffff

[CRLS AGAIN]

http://www.torrentbytes.net/browse.phpR.I.P.THE BEST f*cking TORRENT SITE EVER.ARGH

[Clay]

skeen

[NewKingofKings]

so man would bomb ur house for tryin to hack the netnot even arrest u just blow up ur house without question?*takes laptop to buckingham palace*

[djbmc]

lol @ a cyber 'counter attack' does that mean they go head to head on a game of fifa, or warcraft

[Beavis]

how long you think torrentspy has got left?

[Flat Eric]

So why the f*ck would you want to disable internet..what do you gain?

[Flat Eric]

couple of the 13 dns servers are owned by the us government, they prob use them for military purposes n sh*t, so if that goes down, its major

Oh, terroriosm