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Network Solutions Under Large-Scale DDoS Attack

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-they're-so-friendly dept.

netizen writes "CircleID is reporting a large-scale DDoS attack affecting all of Network Solutions' name servers for the past 48 hours, potentially affecting millions of websites and emails around the world hosting their domain names on the company's servers. The NANOG mailing list indicates that it is due to a very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS which Network Solutions has also confirmed: 'There is a spike in DNS query volumes that is causing latency for the delay in web sites resolving. This is a result of a DDOS attack. We are taking measures to mitigate the attack and speed up queries.""

8 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. One must ask... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Network Solutions have any network solutions?

  2. Slashdotting will help how? by nwf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice we can link to something in their domain to further add to the DNS traffic! Maybe someone could find a link to download some huge file from their servers, too!

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  3. Re:Shashi B at Network Solutions by TheSeer2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    A shortened url? On /.?

    http://blog.networksolutions.com/2009/potential-latency-on-network-solutions-dns/

  4. Re:Oops... by troll8901 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that's you, making my 40Gb/s connection slow!

    Now I'm shelling out for 14Tb/s. Money don't grow on trees, you know.

  5. Re:Someone should be fired! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    is there a way to completely "immunize" oneself against such attacks? If so, where is the howto?

    I've heard that unplugging the network cable works OK.

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  6. Re:Someone should be fired! by inKubus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Easy:


    cat "216.34.181.45 slashdot.org" >> /etc/hosts

    Any other questions?

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  7. Re:Someone should be fired! by totally+bogus+dude · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and so ends the era of "useless use of cat"; now begins the era of "completely nonsensical attempt to use cat".

  8. Re:The Beginning? by Rayban · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn whoever first started spelling that as "Cornfucker". I keep seeing that now - just waiting to say it accidentally.

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