Attack targets .info domain system By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 25, 2002, 1:12 PM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1001-971178.html?tag=fd_top An Internet attack flooded domain name manager UltraDNS with a deluge of data late last week, causing administrators to scramble to keep up and running the servers that host .info and other domains. The assault sent nearly 2 million requests per second to each device connecting the network to the Internet--many times greater than normal--during the four hours of peak activity that hit the company early Thursday morning, said Ben Petro, CEO of UltraDNS. "This is the largest attack that we've seen," Petro said. He stressed that it didn't affect the company's core domain name system (DNS) services, but administrators had to work fast to get the attack blocked by the backbone Internet companies from which UltraDNS gets its connectivity. "From a network management perspective, it certainly kept us on our toes," he said. <snip> UltraDNS, a member of the Internet Society, serves as the primary DNS provider for the .org domain. In addition, UltraDNS acts as the primary provider for .info and for the top-level domains of Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway and nine other domains. "The reality is that the attacks keep getting bigger, stronger and faster," Petro said. "Like terrorism, you don't know when they are going to strike and how they are going to strike. Until we are able to dedicate attention to these attacks, until we can follow these attacks to their end, we are all vulnerable." http://news.com.com/2100-1001-971178.html?tag=fd_top