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DDoS on Domain Registrar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the paint-by-numbers dept.

miller60 writes "Netcraft is reporting that 'domain registrar Joker.com says its nameservers have been hit with a massive DDoS attack, causing outages for customers. More than 550,000 domains are registered with Joker, meaning the outages could be widely felt. It's not clear why the DDoS is succeeding, as most registrars have implemented sturdy DDoS protection since the attack on the root nameserver system back in 2002.' Some security experts have warned in recent weeks about DNS recursion attacks as previously discussed here on Slashdot, which can amplify the power of attacks launched from botnets."

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  1. But why? by Minwee · · Score: 4, Interesting
    In case anyone has missed the significance of a major European domain registrar getting whacked right now, you should recall that the .EU domains go on sale to the public in about a week.

    If anything, I'm surprised that more regitstrars aren't being hit by this. Maybe they agreed to pay up instead.

  2. Getting sick of this by totya · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it's time for the sensible businesses to form an alliance to defend themselves from these DDOS attacks. We've got to be able to switch along storage, location, share the load among us. If there was a few dozen or hundred larger sites with huge pipes, then actions like this could be avoided. Virtualization looks like a very good help for this. Send along a vmware image to the emergency network, fire up the systems, vpn to the backend, and you're set. I know I oversimplify this, but I guess something along these lines could work (technically). Of course politics and such come into play, but if major players started to float this idea - again, I think it could work. Any thoughts (or flames)?