24 Mar
1996
24 Mar
'96
3:44 p.m.
Hi, ns.ripe.net is stormed with IN A requests for @.root-servers.net. It looks like this isn't an isolated incident; I received similar reports from one of the other nameservers of root-servers.net. Given the intensity of the incident (we get 2 times as much requests on this than all other requests combined), I don't believe this is caused by a single bitflip somewhere. It would be real nice if the maintainers of some 'popular' caching nameservers would do a cache dump (kill -INT named), look if @.root-servers.net is listed somewhere, and send me the details if you find it in your cache. Thanks, Geert Jan