[Infowarrior] - DNS Attack Factsheet (ICANN Report from 6 Feb Event)

[Richard Forno]

DNS Attack Factsheet

8 March 2007

Download the DNS attack factsheet here [PDF, 289K].

ICANN has today released a factsheet concerning the recent attack on the
root server system on 6 February 2007. The factsheet is intended to provide
an explanation of the attack for a non-technical audience in the hope of
enlarging public understanding surrounding this and related issues.

Aside from covering the attack itself and the engineers' response to it, the
factsheet also briefly reviews the root server system, the domain name
system, Anycast technology, and what can be done in order to deal with such
attacks in future.

It is hoped that the factsheet will be the first in a series, with ICANN's
general manager of public participation, Kieren McCarthy, acting as series
editor. Future factsheets hope to follow a similar approach of providing
clear and topical non-technical information about various aspects of the
Internet in which ICANN is involved.

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-08mar07.htm