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  2. Timeline of Internet conflicts - Wikipedia

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    Spawned from the original ARPANET, the modern Internet, World Wide Web and other services on it, such as virtual communities (bulletin boards, forums, and Massively multiplayer online games) have grown exponentially. Such prolific growth of population, mirroring "offline" society, contributes to the number of conflicts and problems online ...

  3. Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers

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    An effective attack against DNS might involve targeting top-level domain servers (such as those servicing the .com domain) instead of root name servers. Alternatively, a man-in-the-middle attack or DNS poisoning attack could be used, though they would be more difficult to carry out.

  4. Domain Name System - Wikipedia

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    A DNS name server is a server that stores the DNS records for a domain; a DNS name server responds with answers to queries against its database. The most common types of records stored in the DNS database are for start of authority ( SOA ), IP addresses ( A and AAAA ), SMTP mail exchangers (MX), name servers (NS), pointers for reverse DNS ...

  5. Decline and fall in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...

  6. Internet outage - Wikipedia

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    [54] [55] As a DNS provider, Dyn provides to end-users the service of mapping an Internet domain name—when, for instance, entered into a web browser—to its corresponding IP address. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through a large number of DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. [56]

  7. Harrowing Google Earth update reveals Ukraine before and ...

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    A public pool in Mariupol also fell foul to a vicious Russian stike, blowing a gaping hole in its roof, as shown on Google Maps. According to the Kyiv Independent, civilians had been sheltering in ...

  8. IPv6 brokenness and DNS whitelisting - Wikipedia

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    Google, a major provider of services on the Internet, experimented with using a type of DNS allowlisting on a per-ISP basis to prevent this [9] [10] until the World IPv6 Launch. In the DNS allowlisting approach, ISPs are determined from DNS lookup source IP addresses by correlating them with network prefixes derived from routing tables .

  9. History of Arda - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past". [1]In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, [a] began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe.