Comments on: New shield foiled Internet backbone attack

ICANN report says new load-balancing technology helped the Internet withstand a February attack on the domain name system.

[thenet411]

Another argument for Net Neutrality

The only reason this worked is because of the nature of the free Internet. Servers are everywhere and openly communicate with one another. If one is down, another picks up the slack no matter where the server is. If Net Neutrality is not maintained, this approach will no longer be a reality. It will be a casualty of the telecommunist companies and their greed.

KEEP THE NET FREE!

[nicmart]

Do tell

Talk about twisting reality to make it fit your ideology!

[solrosenberg]

It works both ways

Not sure you want to go down this path. You could just as easily say Net Neutrality made the attack worse. Net Neutrality means the DoS traffic was given equal priority with legitimate traffic.

[perfectblue97]

Other views

I think that people are misunderstanding net neutrality (which I support).

(Most) Companies are not trying to block the free flow of information on the internet. Instead they are trying ensure that people who pay to use the company's service don't loose out if people who pay to use a different company's services start passing heavy amounts of data across their network.

For example, suppose you pay 10 million dollars to install fiber optic cables for your customers. The last thing that you want is for another company to start routing vast quantities of its own subscribers data across your cables, thus slowing your subscribers services down.

Even if we loose net neutrality, it won't impact on DNS requests, which are small and fast. Unless things get really crazy, it will only impact on high traffic services like streamed HD video from companies that don't have their own infrastructure or infrastructure deals.

[tanis143]

Oh really?

Come on! This has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is about ISP's charging high bandwidth users (mostly other companies) more money for the bandwidth. It has nothing to do with other servers throughout the world, especialy ICANN DNS servers.

I swear, the lunatic fringe never ceases to amaze me, they pop up everywhere!

[denali666]

"So called" root DNS server

I find this amusing that there is doubt that it is a root DNS server...

[the1kingarthur]

Condemn Net Neutrality and condemn us all

Those who are against Net Neutrality have no understanding of history what so ever.
Freedom of thought and expression is at the very foundation of Net Neutrality.
The development of computers, and the Internet would not have been possible with out Net Neutrality.

The same people that condemn Net Neutrality are the ones that say there is no place for Hackers, and those of limited income. And although few in numbers, there are those who would limit access to the Internet on the basis of race, creed, religion, or sex. You better wake up. Oppression is oppression. You can?t color it, you can?t flavor it, and you can?t manipulate it

The ARPANET was designed for MILITARY and RESEARCH purposes only. Then a bright young fellow at MIT discovered this new network technology would allow him the ability to send a little note to fellow colleagues across the nation. Not research data, but simply a little note. BAM! E-Mail was born. Theoretically he Hacked into the ARPANET. Others saw this and thought it was so cool, and it spread like wild fire.

Now what would have happen if this bright young man at MIT was not allowed freedom of thought or expression? What would have happened if this new technology was kept secret? What would have happen if access was restricted? What would have happened if everyone that sent E-Mail was charged for each e-mail sent?

We either would not have an Internet, or it would be for the use of a select group chosen by money, power, and political greed with sever restrictions on freedom of thought, and expression!

You want to restrict freedom of thought, expression, and movement from place to place? Restrict yours, and leave mine and the other citizens of the world alone. This is OUR Internet. The Internet that allows people to see that other people across the world are no different, that they have the same problems, love, and desires as their selves. The Internet that has given knowledge to millions who would other wise have remained in the darkness of illiteracy.