Attack on the DNS ?

[bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer)]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 05:05:46AM -0400,
 Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 17 lines which said:

> Anyone seen signs of this attack actually occurring ?

For serious information about this issue, see:

https://www.dns-oarc.net/wiki/mitigating-dns-denial-of-service-attacks
http://www.cricketondns.com/post.cfm/could-a-ddos-attack-against-the-roots-succeed

I do not repost here the various real-rime monitoring systems (which
show no attack on the root name servers) because these systems will
probably be the first victims of the attack, with all the people using
them to watch the end of the world :-)