Key Internet Server Moved Amid Security Concerns
News But VeriSign, which runs two of the Net's 13 domain name service (DNS) root servers, said Thursday that the timing of the move was coincidental and that the measure was part of a general programme to reduce security risks.
[November 11, 2002, 7:39]
Key Internet Server Moved For Security
News But VeriSign, which runs two of the Net's 13 domain name service (DNS) root servers, said Thursday that the timing of the move was coincidental and that the measure was part of a general program to reduce security risks.
[November 8, 2002, 7:42]
New Shield Repelled Internet Backbone Attack
News ICANN regulates internet domain name and address registration and operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers. The root DNS servers sit at the top of the DNS hierarchy and get queried only if other DNS servers, like those at an internet...
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
Attack On Domain Name Servers Fails
News The so-called distributed denial-of-service attack leveled a barrage of data at the 13 domain-name service root servers beginning around 1 pm PDT on Monday and apparently is ongoing, according to Internet performance measurement company Matrix...
[October 23, 2002, 7:46]
Net Attack Flops, But Threat Persists
News Beginning on Monday, a flood of data bombarded the Internet's 13 domain-name service (DNS) root servers in what's known as a denial-of-service attack. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS and chief scientist for domain-name software company...
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
New Flaws Expose Net To Attacks
News Given the Internet attacks leveled at the DNS root servers three weeks ago, new attacks could be around the corner, ISS warned. While the attacks on the root servers in October didn't exploit any particular flaw, the FBI and System Audit Network...
[November 14, 2002, 8:04]
Build A Scalable DNS Infrastructure
News DNS root servers have responsibility for the .root level) domain. Although technically all Internet domain names end with a dot to represent the root level of the namespace, DNS software in use today does not require you to enter the ending dot to...
[May 9, 2006, 13:05]
European Net Registrars Boycott ICANN
News Like any part of a complex system, such as the Internet, the root name servers are subject to continual (and constantly changing) threats," ICANN added. Black said CENTR is primarily concerned about the stability of the database that lies behind...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Glitch Takes Down 30,000 Sites
News A denial-of-service attack on 13 of the most critical, or "root," DNS servers last October prompted hand-wringing about the system's vulnerability, despite the attack's relatively minor effect on ordinary Net surfers.
[August 1, 2003, 11:45]
ICANN Heads For 'substantive' Meeting
News Another topic that ICANN's board will discuss this week is how to shield the domain name system -- both the root servers and the servers for top-level domains such as .com, .uk, and .jp -- from malicious attacks, Cerf said.
[October 28, 2003, 9:35]
Internet Backbone Suffers Suspected Attack
News These root servers get queried only if other DNS servers, like those at an internet service provider, don't have the right IP address for a specific website. It is an unusual large amount of traffic that is hitting DNS servers," said John Crain...
[February 7, 2007, 13:31]
Attack Targets .info Domain System
News The attack came almost exactly a month after a similar attack targeted the DNS root servers, the databases that hold the critical information computers need to maintain top-level domains. An Internet attack flooded domain name manager UltraDNS with...
[November 26, 2002, 8:54]
Patch Slip-up Raises Security Questions
News And last month, unknown attackers unleashed a flood of data at a key group of DNS servers, known as root servers, raising the spectre of an all-out Internet collapse. Last week, the Internet Software Consortium withheld the patch for a critical...
[November 21, 2002, 13:43]
IPv6 Domains Primed For Launch
News At a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this week, ICANN, which is in charge of allocating IP addresses, said that it has added the latest version of Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) to the Internet's Domain Name Servers (DNS) root server system.
[July 26, 2004, 9:50]
VeriSign's CEO Hits Back At Critics
News On a recent conference call, one of your executives discussed the attacks on the domain name root servers last year. You're saying to go commercial with root servers. With security attacks becoming increasingly common, Sclavos also says it's time...
[October 17, 2003, 12:35]
Networks Crippled By Worms' Onslaught
News The ISP said it saw a dramatic increase in the number of mail-record lookups processed by its domain name system (DNS) root server in the past 24 hours. Every time the mini-mail server sends off a copy of the virus, it looks up data from the DNS...
[August 22, 2003, 8:45]
The Year Ahead: The Future Of Viruses
News Another watermark security event in 2002 was the attack on the root servers of the domain name system (DNS), which translates Web domain names such as zdnet.co.uk into numeric Internet protocol addresses.
[December 31, 2002, 6:33]
Yahoo! And Microsoft Traffic 'hijacked'
News The only way to find that is to ask one of the 13 so-called "root nameservers" hosted around the Internet. The glitch involved a critical component of the Internet's inner workings, the Domain Name System -- it matches familiar Web site names like...
[January 22, 2001, 13:20]
