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2002 DNS Backbone DDoS

The 2002 DNS Backbone DDoS was a significant Internet event in which a distributed denial of service attack targeted the 13 main DNS root servers in October 22, 2002 for one hour. Of the 13 servers, 9 were disabled but the remaining 4 were able to cope.

This event was the first significant attack directed at trying to disable the Internet itself, instead of specific websites. The largest malfunction of the DNS servers before this event were 7 machines in July of 1997, but was due to a technical problem.

See also

• Denial-of-service attack
• Significant Internet events

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