CNET

Root servers: The real Net power

TUNIS, Tunisia--Delegates from third-world nations spent much of last week at a United Nations summit here railing against the Bush administration's alleged control of the Internet. But in reality, ...
PC Magazine

root server

One of several domain name system (DNS) servers on the Internet that contain the IP addresses of the top-level domain (TLD) registry organizations that maintain the global domains (.com, .net, .gov, ...
Computerworld

How to use a personal DNS for root-server attack isolation

Provided a couple of programmers are correct, what started out as an attempt to provide better Domain Name System (DNS) server performance on Windows machines may also be one way to reduce DNS ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ZDNet

ICANN: Anycast saved DNS root servers during attack

The two DNS root servers "badly affected" by last month's intense denial-of-service attack were the only two targeted that have not yet installed the Anycast load balancing technology, according to a ...
Ars Technica

Root DNS servers attacked, no one notices

This happened yesterday, but it's big enough to warrant a day late post. As reported by MSNBC, nine out of thirteen backbone root servers were attacked simultaneously in what one industry official ...
Network World

UPDATE: Lessons learned from Internet root server attack

There’s some good news and some bad news for corporate network managers about the latest Internet root server attack. The good news is that the Internet demonstrated once again that it is the most ...
CRN

DoS Attack Cripples Internet Root Servers

It was the fiercest attack on the 13 root servers since an October 2002 assault that took down many of the roots that help manage worldwide Internet traffic, according to Ben Petro, a senior VP of ...
ZDNet

Millions of Exim servers vulnerable to root-granting exploit

Millions of Exim servers are vulnerable to a security bug that when exploited can grant attackers the ability to run malicious code with root privileges. All Exim servers running version 4.92.1 and ...