I suspect the root servers are far more protected and hardened to such things than the vast majority of commercial web sites. Not to mention, you'd have to bring them all down at the same time to wreak widespread havoc. That would be difficult, since they are all on widely-separated networks. Paul Vixie as a prank once collaborated with Jon Postel and hijacked some of the root servers, redirected some of their answers (Internic's page?) to their own sites. But Postel was one of the most powerful people in the 'net and Vixie is in charge of BIND, so they had a bit of an advantage over your average script-kiddie. :-) Phil On 12 Feb 00, at 16:03, hndat_private boldly uttered: > hi, > > I was just wondering that The latest attacks on the popular web sites had only > one objective behind it: to bring the web sites and render it useless for the > period of attack. If these hacker really do want to create massive scale > problems why not hack the root servers?!!!!!!! This will bring down the whole > internet. > > Hoshil
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