where are these statistics from - I cannot believe that more than a few percent of the net uses non-USG root. Vint At 09:10 AM 11/23/2002 -0500, Joe Baptista wrote: >The root servers struck by the attack assist computers in translating >Internet domain names, such as www.circleid.com, to numeric equivalents >used by computers. These servers provide the primary roadmap for 70% of >all Internet communications. The remaining 30% of the net now uses >competing root service providers who bypass the USG root system. They were >not under attack. Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology WorldCom 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax