[olug] DoDNS extortion

[Eric Penne]

A friend of mine just had her company attacked by a Denial of DNS 
(DoDNS).  Apparently the attackers emailed the bosses demanding $10,000 
or they would launch this DoDNS for the next month.  If they paid the 
money they would "protect" them for a year.  Is this straight out of the 
movies?

Has anybody else had this issue?

What are the best ways or other ways to protect yourself against this 
type of attack?
Multiple DNS servers on different connections is one thing I was 
thinking of.  Manually blacklisting the IP addresses at the route seems 
like a slow and painful way of doing this.

I assume this is a crime that probably should be reported to the FBI 
because it almost certainly crosses state lines.  Any thoughts?

Later
Eric Penne