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The root servers get large traffic spikes quite routinely, this event was simply an order of magnitude or more larger than any previous events (AFAIK). Also, it
by gcommer 11y ago
The root servers get large traffic spikes quite routinely, this event was simply an order of magnitude or more larger than any previous events (AFAIK). Also, it actually managed to DoS a few instances, by way of saturating their throughput--though as the notice mentions, the overall DNS wasn't significantly affected aside from a few queries having to be retried.
- Corrado 11y agoYou can clearly see the spike in this graph[0] (scale it down to Dec to see more detail). These graphs[1] show that it was limited to IPv4. [0] http://a.root-servers.org/metrics.html http://a.root-servers.org/metrics.html [1] http://k.root-servers.org/statistics/ROOT/monthly/ http://k.root-servers.org/statistics/ROOT/monthly/
- mirimir 11y agoNice! Looking at IPv4 Sources, the spike is mind boggling.