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DOS Attacks On DNS Provider
Greedo writes "Seems like UltraDNS was hit with a denial of service attack this weekend. Since these are the guys who are supposed to be running the .ORG DNS, and in light of recent attacks on the gTLD roots, attacks against DNS servers should be treated very seriously. What kind of protection can be had? What happens when an attack like this brings down an entire TLD? Do you want to give control of an entire gTLD to one organization? Read a follow-up discussion on comp.protoocols.dns.std."
I mean, isn't that a bit counterproductive?
"Yes, I brought the entire DNS-system crashing down! I'm l337! Now, all I have to do is to go online and brag about my exploits... Hmmm... There seems to be something wrong with my net-connection..."
Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.
Good thing MS is killing DOS in december. It's way
too violent these days.
Thought you would find this funny:
:)
In IE, I entered ORG and hit enter, just to see what would happen. Although highly unlikely, they could arrange some page there. Instead, MS search brough up a list of possible alternatives. Number one on the list?
Mozilla.org
Thanks, Bill
The ad at the top of the /. homepage was for UltraDNS as I was reading this story. Any publicity is good publicity, I guess...
is the following line in my hosts
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66.35.250.150 slashdot.org
I use to work for a large internet company in Virginia we use to do these types of things all the time. It is a dirty little secret of the hosting community that large amounts of funds are currently being channeled to companies that suffer attacks large scale attacks to strengthen their infrastructure. I know from personal experince that these government kickbacks are sometimes abused by receiptants.
Not only are the hosting companies after the anti-terror funds. The sysadmin's orchastrate these 'attacks' to gain 'relations' with the investigating FBI Special Agents. If you have not seen the women agents in the FBI's Computer Crimes Division do yourself a huge favor. Most of these 'attacks' orginated from internal addresses and it was typically on one of the sysadmin's birthday treats. I personally of gotten '7-digits' from these agents on numerous occasions and one of these lucky agents will be the mother of my children.
not very nice to post the link to their site. Now not only they had to endure a DDoS ping flood attack, they'll have to deal with the ./ effect!
artaxerxes
While I was reading about DOS attacks and the need for distributed DNS, I never thought I'd come across a post like this.
So as the battle weary sys admins from UltraDNS finally get back home from fighting a DDOS attack....
Phone rings.
"Bob, the web server is under attack again, and this one's coming from all around the globe. Game over man, game over."
Slashdot's a bitch.
Yep, the Weekly World News, home of Bat Boy and "Iraqi Submarines Prowling Lake Michigan", has a giant headline in the issue I just saw at the checkout stand: TERRORIST PLOT TO BLOW UP INTERNET ON 1-11!"
The subheads are:
* Computer virus will destroy US economy!
* The US Military will be paralyzed!
* Electricity, food and water supplies vanish!
Clearly, we're ignoring these attacks at our own peril, when as technical a publication as the Weekly World News has picked up the story.
(Back to reality, I literally burst out laughing and almost dropped my Mountain Dew when I saw that headline. Blow up "The Internet". Sounds like my daughter's friends... they come over and ask if her computer "has the Internet on it". No, it doesn't, but it has *access* to the Internet. "Oh, you mean AOL?" Grrr...)
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
I had a friend who used to work for MIT Lincoln Labs, he told me there were at least a dozen ways to take down the internet.
I had a friend who worked for Dunkin Dounuts that told me the same thing.
3cx.org - A truly bad website.