On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:

Anyone have insight into the (seemingly) DoS attack on root-servers which started around 20 UTC and widened to more servers on 20:35 UTC?

Not that it�s causing any serious operational problems but slows down things a lot.

We have automated monitoring on the root servers and have been seeing exactly the same thing from the UK, from multiple locations, starting from the same time. Best wishes, Matthew