[James_F]

Washington Post Article

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.

Looks like those in power a more prepared than they were a couple of years ago. I didn't notice anything....

 

[Unthinkable]

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[invaliduser88]

I believe you can thank DNS caching. If the root servers were down for an extended period of time, then you might have seen problems.

 

[MarkA]

I believe invaliduser88 is right, the only things that would have had problems for most users were new DNS entries that should have been added to the root during that tme.