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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.""

3 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. Re:hummm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rebooting is what you do to Windows boxes. Unix is what you use for important things like DNS.

  2. Shashi B at Network Solutions by shashib · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a update that we posted on the Network Solutions Blog (http://cli.gs/GEWSs0) : DNS queries for web sites should be responding normally. Thank you all for your understanding. As always, we will continue to work to take measures to prevent these and other types of technical issues caused by third parties that may impact our customers. Thanks, ShashiB

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  3. Re:Slashdotting will help how? by epiphani · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hi! You're wrong. That would be Verisign.

    This is DNS hosting provided by Network Solutions for people who buy domains from them and choose to have them host the DNS rather than host it themselves.

    Thanks for playing.

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