> Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that
>> help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most
>> significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
> I heard they (root name servers) were attacked but continued to
> operate. That's hardly what I'd call being overwhelmed.
Right, it sounded as if the AP newswriter was under the impression that everything on the Internet goes through a central bottleneck -- which is precisely what the Internet is designed *not* to be.
As I understand it, only very recently changed domain addresses would be affected by a temporary failure of the root servers.