[At-Large] Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack

[John R. Levine]

> The issue here is that a successful attack against the .com servers would
> take out most of the internet since the technical infrastructure is so
> heavily dependent on the the .com zone.  Any dummy should understand that.

We know.  Fortunately VRSN is a lot more technically sophisticated than 
Netsol, and I would be quite surprised if anyone managed to DDoS them 
successfully.

I know some of the people who run the DNS servers, and they have a variety 
of tricks up their sleeve that make them a lot more resilient than you 
might think.  No, I can't tell you what they are.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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