Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html

"The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated
attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online
backbone organizations.

Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS)
attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for
almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which
lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected,
experts said.

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