Threat Post

Internet Root Name Servers Survive Unusual DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. An unusual DDoS ...
Ars Technica

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and ...
Network World

IPv6 transition: Observations from a name server perspective

As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. The ...
Business Wire

Etisalat and ISC Install Middle East's First Root Name Server

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2003--The region's Internet users served by Etisalat's Internet Network will now experience faster access to web sites following the installation of the ...
Threat Post

Root Servers Were Not Targets of 2015 DDoS Attack

Two VeriSign researchers are expected to deliver a talk this week that explains how two Chinese domains were the targets of 2015 DDoS attacks that impacted the Internet’s root name servers. When the ...
ZDNet

Anonymous launches 'Operation Global Blackout', aims to DDoS the Root Internet servers

According to a note left by members of the Anonymous hacktivist movement on Pastebin.com, the group is planning to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Internet's root DNS ...
Ars Technica

IPv6: coming to a root server near you

Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested ...