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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.

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  1. 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 Ravaldy · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  2. 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.

  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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  4. Slashdotted by Russ1642 · · Score: 2

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

  5. 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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    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.

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

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

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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. 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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  11. That was not a DDOS attack by houghi · · Score: 2

    They were trying to repair it.

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  12. 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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  13. 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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