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Network Solutions Hit With DDoS

Posted by Unknown on from the smells-like-teen-cyberterrorism dept.

New submitter Landy DeField was the first of many of write in about Network Solutions' website and DNS outage: "If your website does not load this morning you need to ask yourself do we use Network Solutions? Because all of their servers are all currently down. You can confirm this by visiting this site." The only solid information from Network Solutions is a post on their Facebook page: "Network Solutions is experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack that is impacting our customers as well as the Network Solutions site. Our technology team is working to mitigate the situation. Please check back for updates." There have been several reports that the outage is causing hosted DNS to fail, leading to a number of unresolvable websites.

91 comments

  1. Do Not Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I do not use Network Solutions DNS service. I use Google's, which is almost always up.

    1. Re:Do Not Use by hawguy · · Score: 5, Funny

      I do not use Network Solutions DNS service. I use Google's, which is almost always up.

      If you're ok with "almost" always up, Network solutions is almost always up too.

    2. Re:Do Not Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I do not use Network Solutions DNS service.

      I do not use any Network Solutions service. They've been pretty shitty in the past and I can't think they'll ever be trustworthy.

      They should check to see if this DDoS is coming from some of their own customers.

    3. Re:Do Not Use by Stunt+Pope · · Score: 2

      Google's public DNS is a resolver service, Netsol's outage affects their authoritative servers.

    4. Re:Do Not Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I didn't know google offered DNS hosting. Oh wait, it doesn't.
      https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/intro
      >A DNS hosting or failover service. Google Public DNS is not a third-party DNS application service provider, such as DynDNS, that hosts authoritative records for other domains.

      We're not talking about which DNS resolver you use, we're talking about authoritative name servers.

    5. Re:Do Not Use by davester666 · · Score: 2

      That's because Google doesn't use a VIC-20 to host it.

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    6. Re:Do Not Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's because Google doesn't use a VIC-20 to host it.

      NOW who's laughing at the outrageous purchase of a C64, Network Solutions? Ha!

  2. Deserved by PiSkyHi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably all those cheeky sales strategies like auto-renewal at any price without confirmation. A free email box that turns into a paid one and can only be cancelled with a support ticket. Shit like that certainly annoys me.

    1. Re:Deserved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I helped my dad move away from them just recently when some services auto renewed months before they expired and I could have sworn I had disabled auto renew. So many shady tactics.

    2. Re:Deserved by Ravaldy · · Score: 3, Informative

      You forget the reserving of domains after you check for availability so that you can only purchase it from them.

    3. Re:Deserved by sjames · · Score: 1

      Network solutions has been a festering carbuncle on the ass of the interbnet since before ICANN (ICAN'T) existed.

    4. Re:Deserved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All of domain registration companies do that. I hear godaddy used to be really bad at doing this.

    5. Re:Deserved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Probably all those cheeky sales strategies like auto-renewal at any price without confirmation.

      Worse, each domain you register has a separate credit card record. So when you update your expiration date, you have to remember to update it on ALL of your domains. Or else your domains will expire and cost you an $80 ransom each.

      Bastards.

      So I switched all my domains to Namecheap and am now much happier. Especially now.

    6. Re:Deserved by PRMan · · Score: 1

      Register.com doesn't do this, to my knowledge.

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      Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
    7. Re:Deserved by sound+vision · · Score: 1

      Not all - in fact the sure the majority of them don't do this. Besides Network Solutions, eNom, and a few others, many domain registration sites out there aren't fully-fledged registrars. Even if the only name you see in a WHOIS lookup is the company you directly paid for the registration, there's a good good chance they use another registrar on the back end. Essentially these companies are just resellers. They pay $6 or whatever for the domain, then charge you $12 for it. This means that even if you choose not to register, the domain, if they sneak-register it from under you, that does incur a monetary cost, making it unlikely.

      I work for a domain reseller. Now, GoDaddy and Network Solutions may very well not have to pay anything for registration, so this tactic might be more useable for them. But for the company I work for, this tactic would be a financial loser.

  3. I can confirm by AvitarX · · Score: 2

    that the hosted DNS is down.

    This article popped up as I was recreating a zone because of it, best to be off of their hosted DNS anyway.

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    1. Re:I can confirm by NewWorldDan · · Score: 1

      Yep. Having issues here as well. Not good, but surprisingly I haven't had any calls from angry customers yet.

    2. Re:I can confirm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The only solid information from Network Solutions is a post on their Facebook page: "Network Solutions is experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack that is impacting our customers as well as the Network Solutions site. Our technology team is working to mitigate the situation. Please check back for updates." There have been several reports that the outage is causing hosted DNS to fail, leading to a number of unresolvable websites.

      best to be off of their hosted DNS anyway.

      Sort of restating the obvious from their choice of venues isn't it? Facebook? Really? Don't want any intelligent person to see their announcement I guess.

    3. Re:I can confirm by afidel · · Score: 1

      It doesn't matter who you transfer your zones to, you need two providers if you want to have reliable DNS these days because basically all the big DNS players have had DNS amplification attacks against them at least once in the last year. We switched off AT&T to DNS Made Easy when AT&T suffered a similar attack about 9 months ago but given the frequency of these attacks it's probably just a matter of time until they get hit as well so I'm going to setup secondary zone transfers to a second provider.

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    4. Re: I can confirm by AvitarX · · Score: 1

      Ours is on the same server as the website.

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  4. Everyone is in Luck by cyberpocalypse · · Score: 1

    Everyone is in luck: June 21st, 2013, 07:09 GMT By Eduard Kovacs http://news.softpedia.com/news/LinkedIn-Outage-Caused-by-DDOS-Attack-on-Network-Solutions-362473.shtml --- This means, that on Sunday, you will all find out it was a DoS attack. This also means, on Sunday, if you visit that site you can also get the Powerball results which haven't been posted yet and all retire.

    1. Re:Everyone is in Luck by Phics · · Score: 1

      Sunday? June 21st was a Friday!

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      There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
    2. Re:Everyone is in Luck by NatasRevol · · Score: 1

      Was?!?!

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      There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
    3. Re:Everyone is in Luck by sjames · · Score: 1

      You must have bought the discounted 'irregular calendar'.

    4. Re:Everyone is in Luck by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 1

      Yes, we're in July already, try to keep up.

    5. Re:Everyone is in Luck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah was you mook... It's July 17th...

    6. Re:Everyone is in Luck by NatasRevol · · Score: 1

      Wait, this isn't May?

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      There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
    7. Re:Everyone is in Luck by NatasRevol · · Score: 2

      To be fair, it is a Dilbert calendar. That I haven't changed in a while.

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      There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
    8. Re:Everyone is in Luck by Phics · · Score: 1

      Heh.... looks like not everyone made it out of June... I've had months like that.

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      There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
  5. Slashdotted by Russ1642 · · Score: 2

    Don't post it here. Now they'll be Slashdotted as well.

    1. Re:Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not unless you post their IP address!

  6. Re:LOL fagets by xevioso · · Score: 0, Troll

    tl;dr

  7. related to incident from few wks ago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they f'd up some high-profile sites a few weeks ago - wonder if they fired (or scapegoated) someone who's showing their appreciation?

    1. Re:related to incident from few wks ago? by Z00L00K · · Score: 1

      Seems to me from the comments over at "isdownrightnow" that this isn't the only outage they have had this year.

      One outage is bad for a service like that, repeated outages is killing that kind of business that has to be based on being reliable in all weathers.

      --
      If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
  8. The Attack Appears To Be Ongoing, But... by NotSanguine · · Score: 2

    DNS name resolution from Network Solutions' DNS servers seems to be functional for 50-60% of requests based on a small sample (resolution of hosts in domains I manage). The Website is back up.

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    1. Re:The Attack Appears To Be Ongoing, But... by xevioso · · Score: 2

      This is actually a real problem for me. Yesterday I changed DNS records for an older client of mine on Network Solutions to point to a nameserver on another hosting environment. It seemed to work pretty quickly on some machines, on others it still showed the old site. Now it has reverted back to the older site on some and on others it is propagating correctly.

      I am not sure what the hell is going on. I can't tell if there is just some propagation issue, or if it is a cache issue, or if the DNS service on their end is just reverting back to an older state and I need to reset the nameserver change. I don't know what to do but wait.

      It's funny because this is the first freelance project I have done literally in 4 years; I was only doing it as a favor for an older client. Been working on the site for months, and on the VERY DAY I changed DNS records this happens. Figures.

    2. Re:The Attack Appears To Be Ongoing, But... by WuphonsReach · · Score: 1

      Public DNS records are something that it's not worth doing in-house any longer. Go with one of the DNS firms that give you multiple SOA servers, located in multiple data centers across the globe. A lot of registrar-based DNS options only offer the basics (no TXT or SRV records), or all of your SOA servers are in the same data center, leaving you vulnerable to a DDoS like this.

      (Personally, we use DNSMadeEasy, but they're not the only game in town. Spending $60/yr to not have to personally maintain DNS servers has been well worth it.)

      --
      Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
  9. It's back up by gravis777 · · Score: 1

    From isitdownrightnow.com

    Last Down: 3 minutes ago

    Networksolutions.com is UP and reachable.
      The website is probably down just for you...

    1. Re:It's back up by gravis777 · · Score: 2

      Also I can pull up networksolutions.com

      It isitdownrightnow.com also says:
      Possible Service Disruption : Our test passed without any errors however 78 users have reported problems in the last few hours. Please check comments section for more details.

  10. Old News by opusbuddy · · Score: 2

    They've gotten hit by 3 Spamhaus blacklists since last fall and this is the second DDOS in around a month. After the last Spamhaus debacle a few weeks ago, there were so many angry posts on their blogs about it that they took the link to their blogs off their account manager page. Calling their customer service sh!++y is an affront to sh!++y customer service. When I called to find out what was going on in the last DDOS, I got an IVR message, "Sorry, we're too busy to take your call" to which I responded by typing www.godaddy.com into my Firefox browser. It loaded great.

    On top of that, they reupped me for 3 years without my request or approval, but I didn't notice until 60 days had past. Already bought a year at GoDaddy and am moving as fast as I can. Hard to download your site when FTP times out all the time. Will file reports with the FTC & BBB once I've gotten off their servers.

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    If this were easy, they wouldn't need us to do it!
    1. Re:Old News by Ravaldy · · Score: 1

      What do you expect? Maybe the message used isn't great but every single one of their customers is calling. No company can prepare for that. If you want a company that can answers 100% of calls in a situation like this you'll have to pay a lot more for your hosting solution.

      This could just as well be happening to GoDaddy.com and you would get the same message when calling their number.

    2. Re:Old News by Scutter · · Score: 1

      They need a better message than "You're down. You're f***ed. Call back later." Yeah, I know we're down. That's why I called. They need to provide BETTER information. Put something useful on their blog, FB, Twitter, etc. Instead, every time there's a problem, they close the blinds and lock all the doors while the angry mob gathers outside. That's a hell of a way to run a railroad.

      --

      "Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
    3. Re:Old News by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1

      You're moving from NetSol to GoDaddy?

      That might have made sense, say, in 2003, when NetSol started going to the birds.

      http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/09/10/5-reasons-you-should-leave-godaddy-and-how/

      GoDaddy has been on my blacklist along with NetSol since SOPA.

      Best two services I've seen that are ethical, long-lasting and reasonably priced are NameCheap and Gandi. Gandi also has the benefit that it's not in the US, and so unless you're using it for something that's illegal in France, you're unlikely to get your domain yanked out from under you (and you'll get warning if it's going to happen).

    4. Re:Old News by pnutjam · · Score: 1

      If you are still using Network Solutions, you have only yourself to blame...

      I noticed a site I was using showed up with an invalid certificate. It seemed to match the domain and had not expired. It was issues by Network Solutions. I'm sure this is related.

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      Cheap storage VM.
  11. Data point by Empiric · · Score: 2

    There have been several reports that the outage is causing hosted DNS to fail, leading to a number of unresolvable websites.

    Confirmed here. DNS resolution was down for about an hour this morning for our domains registered with Network Solutions, no problems with domains registered elsewhere.

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    ~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
    1. Re:Data point by NotSanguine · · Score: 1

      There have been several reports that the outage is causing hosted DNS to fail, leading to a number of unresolvable websites. Confirmed here. DNS resolution was down for about an hour this morning for our domains registered with Network Solutions, no problems with domains registered elsewhere.

      As I mentioned above, DNS resolution is *still* spotty for my domains.

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      No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    2. Re:Data point by RatBastard · · Score: 1

      My domain is completely fubar and has been for two days. Luckily it's just an old-fashioned vanity web page, so it's not a big deal.

      --
      Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
    3. Re:Data point by RatBastard · · Score: 1

      Cancel that. It just started working again sometime in the last twenty minutes.

      --
      Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
  12. Network Solutions up & running again-DDoS atta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I saw the outage this morn when I not only was having email issues but couldn't even access the NetworkSolutions.com page. Had to google their tech support # b/c of that & when I called, their message said, "Network Solutions is experiencing a system-wide Denial of Access Attack" which is affecting all web service. We are not taking calls at this time about this and are currently working on fixing the problem." About an hour later, it is back up and running. My email with them though has been having issues for two weeks with attachments and takes forever to attach something now only to say "error" once it uploads 100%. Too much trouble trying to use their system for my graphic arts co. due to this lately. Even though it kept saying "error" though, I just found out from my client that they actually DID receive my emails with attachments, however the N.S. site didn't record those emails as "sent" at all. Just as "error" after uploading.

  13. Re:Network Solutions up & running again-DDoS a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    so I hit reply to this subject and this page gives me title of "anonymous coward". LAME WEBSITE....won't be visiting here again. EVER

  14. Is it a.... DNS amplification attack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The irony all these fools running around warning us of dire consequences of having an open DNS servers while concurrently pushing DNSSEC.

    In the last two decades the only progress of any kind made to fix these problems is sale of brute force mitigation services to those who can afford it.

    Nobody is interested in fixing broken UDP protocols:
    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eastlake-dnsext-cookies-03

    Nor are they interested in applying necessary anti-spoofing filters:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_filtering

    Mitigation is apparently more profitable than spending money to fix what is broke.

  15. slashdot ddos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was probably just the slashdot post reporting the problem that caused it.

  16. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    in.su, DDOS hits YOU!

  17. wires to buzz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    This is a dns reflection/amplification attack. Its affecting most if not all hosting companies, and is limited to boxes with a known vulnerability in Bind. Why do so many people think this is only hitting netsol? Also, its been occurring for more than a week now and thoroughly documented. #GoodAdminsReadAdvisories

  18. That was not a DDOS attack by houghi · · Score: 2

    They were trying to repair it.

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    Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
  19. We who? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

    If your website does not load this morning you need to ask yourself do we use Network Solutions?

    Wait, is that we meaning you, or we meaning me? I know you means me, because it's me you're talking to. I'm just not sure who we is. Are.

    --
    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  20. I Do Not Use DNS (for my fav sites) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I get to them faster (local off TRUE SSD DDR2 Gigabyte IRAM 4gb PCIExpress ramdisk card speed of access/seek sub ms into low ns), & get past DNS failures, like this one, via:

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

    My top 20 sites favorites where I spend 95%++ or better of my time are in mine @ the topmost 20 entries - this equals or exceeds DNS indexing up to ~2-3 million++ record entries... I also get local seek/read & faster once cached into memory (either by local dns caching client services or with large hosts files, the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem - keeps it ALL in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode with the TCP/IP stack!). I checked my browser histories, firewall logs (software & router), etc., to determine them (knew them anyhow, I am ME, right? Right!).

    Sub ~4% of the time? I use DNS, but specialized secured filtered ones vs. malware/spam/phishing etc. like OpenDNS, Comodo DNS, ScrubIT DNS, & others like them. Rare. Part of why I use news aggregator sites. They help not having to hop all over the place.

    * Not only does it do more than AdBlock ('souled-out' 2 Google) & Ghostery (advertiser owned - to me, that's a fox guarding a henhouse) in speeding you up, AND blocking ads (plus known maliciously coded sites or malware serving servers etc.), but it makes you more RELIABLE, this way in cases like this also.

    APK

    P.S.=> Other major problems in DNS are that it's 99% unpatched out there vs. the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw, worst of all @ the ISP level, but also it gets "taken advantage of" in its very nature by FastFlux &/or Dynamic DNS utilizing bots, like mad, recycling-reusing host-domain names of malware spewing sites like mad (hard to kill, can live again/reincarnate - IP addressed malware is easy to kill by comparison, being stationary/static, vs. dynamic)...

    ... apk

    1. Re:I Do Not Use DNS (for my fav sites) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How come post parent to mine = offtopic when it has a valid fix?

    2. Re:I Do Not Use DNS (for my fav sites) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because it doesn't.

  21. I think that was the corporate We by Marrow · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the royal We. You understand now, Oui?

  22. Angry Users On Facebook by JeanInMontana · · Score: 1

    ooooh the comments on Facebook are giving them hell. I have to agree, the latest news comes from Facebook? tsk tsk not how to treat your customers.

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    *Think globally~Dream universally*
  23. DNS dependent guys do - see article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I don't & bypass DNS completely as shown here http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 also getting around fastflux & dynamic dns using botnets/malwares etc. too (since they're blocked in my custom hosts file too: "2-for-the-price-of-1" bonus!), & I do name resolution faster, locally (from a True SSD no less), in kernelmode too cached in RAM & the native TCP/IP resolver driver in tcpip.sys does the rest, also in kernelmode (fastest there is): Who's the moron?

    * :)

    APK

    P.S.=> Answer to that last question = Not I... lol!

    ... apk

    1. Re:DNS dependent guys do - see article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You.

      You lost. Don't try again. Enjoy an outage every DNS change.

    2. Re:DNS dependent guys do - see article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      HAHA! You suck. DNS change? That's an annual event, not "all the time" now is it?
      Arguing with APK is like arguing against someone's religion. I for one welcome an article where his EXTREMELY REPOSTED spiel is actually relevant.
      Also, I can almost bet you the sites he goes to don't ever change their IP unless they really have to, and in that case they probably have a notice about upcoming "website maintenance."
      So as long as he's prepared, his solution works fine.
      What it doesn't do:
      Automatically update
      What it does do:
      Work when the auto updating services fail for no good reason.

      Also, he didn't say he cuts DNS out completely. Just for his favorite sites.
      Also, you seem to be unfamiliar with how quickly hosts file can be reverted/updated. HINT: It's however fast you can edit and save a text file.

  24. 13 years too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Network solutions used to be one of the most evil companies around. I haven't heard about them for like 7 years. I'm certainly happy about this joyous news.

  25. Prefer to host my own servers by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1

    Netsol makes it difficult to add your own DNS records for your domain. So, I never pursued it. Regretting that now.

  26. So mean! by sootman · · Score: 2

    "... all of their servers are all currently down. You can confirm this by visiting [link]."

    Very funny, guys. Kick'em while they're down.

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    Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
  27. What about yesterday's incident? by X0fl1b · · Score: 1

    Our club's website is hosted by NetSol and our homepage was defaced yesterday. After 30+ minutes in the hold queue, I figured it was an issue on their side. Sure enough, the customer rep told me a bunch of their hosting servers suffered an intrusion and thousands of customers were similarly affected.

  28. Don't use your registrar's DNS by jtara · · Score: 1

    I never use my registrar's DNS, even though I like my registrar (Moniker) a lot.

    Nor would I ever use a web hosting company's DNS.

    It's safest to use third-party DNS.

    Risks of single-sourcing registrar, DNS, and hosting:

    - host/registrar goes out of business, or suffers a disaster. You now have no ability to switch to a different host until the situation is resolved through IANA and somebody else gets control of the registry records. If you use third-party DNS, while you now can't change to a different DNS provider (assuming registrar failure) you can still add new hosts to your DNS and can still move between hosts. You can survive a failure of any two of the three services and change providers.

    - you have a dispute of some sort with your host (assuming single-sourcing with host). They now can hold your domain hostage for payment.

    Keeping DNS/registrar/hosting all separate maximizes versatility and makes you more able to squirm out of unpleansant and unexpected situations.

  29. Bigger Irony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Initial downmod to -1 showing end users how to be "proof" to this attack (topic) http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431

    It works vs. this (& dns attacks of other types too) via a hosts file it produces (that yields many good added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity benefits beyond fixing this type of mishap) + what you said ( & I further it in that link) in many dns issues: Bigtime dns specific per redirect poisoning (Kaminsky = nearest yours) + fastflux & dynDNS botnets abusing dns.

    Nicer part's my program proofs you vs. this + gives more speed, security, reliability, anonymity, & "more 4 your money" you pay to be online & the program's 100% free!

    Speeds you up 2 ways @ IP stack level + diskcache subsystems (kernelmode fast not usermode redundant slower browser addons), secures you (vs. online malicious content of many kinds (specifics = fastflux + dynDNS using botnets here topic being dns issues)), more anonymity (vs dnsbl's & dns request logs - server admins can thank me 4 their rigs working less too - triple bonus), & finally - proofs you vs. DNS outage (& redirect poisoning attacks too)!

    * Nicest part = it works w\ DNS perfectly (operates beneath it even on servers) shoring up its faults like this - A security solution that adds speed too!

    "The Premise is quite simple: Take something engineered by nature and reprogram it to work for the body, rather than against it" - Dr. Alice Krippen, 'I AM LEGEND'

    APK

    P.S.=> Link went -1 to 0 "offtopic" - wtf? It proofs folks to this attack! That's 'offtopic'?? Now +1 "Interesting"! Anyhow - I use something old (hosts) to supplement DNS & overcome its flaws + much noticeably faster/safer/more reliable/more anonymous online! It works 4 all the above & more. Couldn't believe I was downmodded w\ a working solution! You use irony = why I sound off here per rating wildly moving on my post above & I liked your links too (thanks again for them)

    ... apk

  30. Hosts bypass DNS via "Hardcodes" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So if DNS dies You get where you wish anyhow 'sans' dns (like this article today as a 'prime example thereof') since hosts completely bypass dns local or remote (& certainly is better than trying a downed dns as any good, lol, since they're DOWN for the count!). Hosts = L1 cpu cache here as always & by default.

    Using a custom hosts file you're YOUR own local resolver via tcpip.sys lookup preferential order default & best functionality (totally bypassing the need for remote or local dns using custom hosts files with favs hardcoded)... period.

    * :)

    Dns outages don't affect that - so, sure it does (works great + much more in added speed, security, reliability, & even more anonymity to a degree!). Especially for my hardcoded favorites (or blocked known malicious ones).

    APK

    P.S.=> "The Premise, is quite simple: Take something designed by nature, & reprogram it to make it work for the body, rather than against it" - Dr. Alice Krippen, 'I AM LEGEND'...

    ... apk

  31. "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" troll... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44315701

    APK

    P.S.=> You fail, & you obviously do NOT know what you're talking about here... apk

    1. Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" troll... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You lost. Don't try again. Enjoy your worst experience.

  32. You're right about you losing badly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" stupid ac troll -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44315701

    1. Re:You're right about you losing badly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now you avoid discussing the problems with your approach. Nice try, you lose.

  33. Days later, you ridiculous doltish troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Give us a break: Disprove what the program does here http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

    * I love it - since I know you simply can't... lol!

    APK

    P.S.=> You're a ridiculous troll, & but also a total coward as well... no balls: You came in here days later, downmodding unjustly, & trolling - but you just CAN'T DISPROVE WHAT THE RESULTS OF MY PROGRAM ARE stated in that link above - lmao, every single time, that's all a WORM like you, has... hilarious - I am laughing @ you, as always!

    ... apk

    1. Re:Days later, you ridiculous doltish troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I LOVE HOW YOU NEED TO POST IN ALL CAPS TO CONVINCE YOURSELF OF WHAT YOU`RE SAYING, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT IT`S COMPLETE BULLSHIT.

      Also, while I am glad that you are so sad a human being that you actively deny reality in order to make yourself feel better, I'm not the one who downvoted you. The rest of Slashdot, probably because you're a complete fuckwit.

  34. "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" troll (you failed) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Off topic defeated technically challenged troll that you are http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44353117 since you RAN there ("Run, Forrest: RUN!!!", lol) & also here http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44315701

    * You have issues!

    LMAO, what else can I say? You're unable to face up to a challenge I put your way to disprove my points on customhosts files benefits to users in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity that I list at my app's hosted page, due to your technical incompetence!

    (Yet coming back for more, lol, how many days/weeks later for "the last word"?)

    APK

    P.S.=> You're worse than a woman & obviously dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to the art & science of computing... & obviously a liar (we all know how it works, registered lusers can post ac after downmodding by logging out to save cookie state here. It's obvious you downmodded me since you've made yourself look stupid and you run from a challenge, lol!

    ... apk

  35. Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" troll (you failed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm definitely not the one with issues. Nice try, though. Keep typing :)

  36. Std. "APK Challenge" to trolls then... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" Forrest Gump troll -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44315701 - disprove it validly with facts.

    Since "The Premise, is quite simple: Take something designed by nature, & reprogram it to make it work for the body, rather than against it" - Dr. Alice Krippen, 'I AM LEGEND'...

    And, it certainly does in this case AND many others -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

    * :)

    (Validly disprove the points I enumerate in the 2nd link, as well as my points in the 1st link above that are specific to THIS article here about the value of custom hosts files for added speed, security, reliability - especially vs. DNS faults in not being patched on 99% of them worldwide @ the ISP level worst of all vs. the Kaminsky bug redirection flaw + FastFlux & DynDNS tech utilizing botnets, and lastly even for added anonymity to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's you may not like)).

    Go for it - you can't do it, hence your "Run, Forrest - RUN!!!" b.s. & ac trolling...Fact (based on 100's of trolls like yourself using the same reprehensible tactics as yourself in the end out of "wounded pride" no doubt): Nobody can! Why? My theme of my LIFE "Fight the GOOD fight, every moment" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3zhgXDDSs

    APK

    P.S.=> It makes me feel like Good Will Hunting when he says "Look - maybe I don't want to sit around the rest of my life explaining shit to people... Do you know how EASY this is for me? Do you have any fucking idea how easy this is for me?? This is a fucking JOKE. & I'm sorry you can't do this: I really am because I wouldn't have to sit here and watch you fumble around & FUCK IT UP!" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqoSxVf4qTY to the great mathematician he humbles with ease, despite his not having the same education.

    ... apk

    1. Re:Std. "APK Challenge" to trolls then... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Keep typing more. It's quite cute how desperate you are.

  37. Keep "projecting"... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As well as running from this -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44403287

    APK

    1. Re:Keep "projecting"... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're the only one running. Keep going.

  38. "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The opposite appears to be the case here (you ran) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44405463

    APK

    1. Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not running anywhere. Projection.

  39. "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can't disprove my points on hosts http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44403287 in custom hosts files giving users added speed, added security, added reliability (as in this article specifically), & even added anonymity - face facts: You fail!

    * You're just some mentally challenged troll, nothing more...

    APK

    P.S.=> I must have TRULY knocked the snot out of you @ some point - has to be that, since you act worse than a woman trying to 'get the last word" here & failing on that as well as being unable to disprove my points... apk