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U.S. Internet Servers Strengthened Against DDoS Attacks

Calendar Nov 07, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Experts have made an important change to the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic, separating two of them to help better defend against the type of attack that occurred last month. . . Experts have made an important change to the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic, separating two of them to help better defend against the type of attack that occurred last month.

Verisign Inc., which operates two of the root servers, moved one computer overnight Tuesday to a different building in an unspecified location in northern Virginia and onto a different part of its network, company spokeswoman Cheryl Regan said Wednesday.

Verisign said the change was designed to ensure that a hardware outage or focused attack targeting part of its network could not disrupt both servers.

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