{"id":562,"date":"2015-12-11T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:25:16","slug":"suspected-botnet-tried-to-break-the-internet-by-attacking-root-dns-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Suspected botnet tried to break the Internet by attacking root DNS servers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSomeone tried to break the Internet last week by DDoSing the root DNS servers. Fortunately, It didn\u2019t work. For two and a half hours on November 30 a barrage of requests \u2014 five million queries every second \u2014 hit most of the Internet\u2019s 13 root DNS servers. Another attack lasted an hour the next day. A sophisticated botnet is the likely source, but no one is sure what motivated the attack. Related: Hackers begin attack using simple web flaw which affects most of the Internet In any case, safeguards in place meant the Internet did not go down on November 30, or December 1st. Most people didn\u2019t even notice the attack. \u201cMy takeaway is that the event pretty much \u2018didn\u2019t happen\u2019 for the ordinary user,\u201d professor Randal Vaughn of Baylor University told Ars Technica. \u201cThey either failed to observe it or just didn\u2019t associate any connectivity issues with an ongoing attack.\u201d Part of the reason for this is the robustness of the root DNS servers: they\u2019re designed to stand up to a lot of traffic, so even attacks like this don\u2019t amount to much. More importantly, most Internet users don\u2019t make requests of the root DNS servers, instead using the DNS servers provided by an\u00a0ISP or third party services like Google or OpenDNS. \u201cThe DNS root name server system functioned as designed, demonstrating overall robustness in the face of large-scale traffic floods observed at numerous DNS root name servers,\u201d said a report on the attack. Still, the attack was unique. Geographically scattered computers sent billions of seemingly valid queries for a single domain name, then repeated the process for another domain the next day. The volume of traffic means someone has access to massive amounts of computing power, and even if it wasn\u2019t nearly enough to cause any actual problems, it\u2019s still troubling. The same power, directed at any other target, would\u2019ve been far more successful at\u00a0achieving its goal. Also watch: Gingerbread Men Attack in First Clip From Krampus Please enable Javascript to watch this video<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Someone tried to break the Internet last week by DDoSing the root DNS servers. Fortunately, It didn\u2019t work. For two and a half hours on November 30 a barrage of requests \u2014 five million queries every second \u2014 hit most of the Internet\u2019s 13 root DNS servers. Another attack lasted…<\/p>\n

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