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EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack
mellow marsh writes "EveryDNS, sister company to OpenDNS (which runs the PhishTank anti-phishing initiative), has been hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack started sometime Friday afternoon and, from all indications, was targeting Web sites that used free DNS management services provided by EveryDNS. At the height of the DDoS bombardment, EveryDNS was being hit with more than 400mbps of traffic at each of its four locations around the world. From the article: '"We were collateral damage," Ulevitch explained... Because law enforcement is involved, Ulevitch was hesitant to release details of the actual target but there are signs that some of the targets were "nefarious domains" that have since been terminated.'" OpenDNS, which makes use of EveryDNS services, was affected for a time, until they spread their authoritative DNS more broadly. The EveryDNS site is now reporting that the attack is continuing but has been mitigated and is not affecting operations.
/., like kicking a dead puppy.
Nothing helps out a site currently under a DDoS attack like being linked to on the front page of /.
There is your free lesson in redundancy
No Sig for you.!
The problem is, EasyDNS could only afford an AOL dialup to put their servers up. On top of that, the "server", is really just an old Pentium MMX with 32megs of RAM running bind on top of cygwin on top of Windows 95. Unfortunately, the admin let his 16 year old sister use the machine to browse MySpace (and who knows what else), so let's just say the machine is running other "services" as well.
You must be new...oh
Don't hate the guy you replied to because his UID is freakin' 18!!! :^)