DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

#1

Post by owenwil » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:11 PM UTC

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

#2

Post by _ar7 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:16 PM UTC

Almost every website I visit except HN seems to be down...

#3

Post by tbarbugli » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:17 PM UTC

Github does not work for 100% the time

#4

Post by jtmarmon » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:17 PM UTC

I'm updating a list of confirmed outages as I see them here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520

So far twitter, etsy, soundcloud, spotify, github, pagerduty...crazy that this can even happen

#5

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

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#6

Post by agotterer » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

tbarbugli wrote: post #3

Github does not work for 100% the time

GitHub is working for me from NYC.

#7

Post by dudul » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:19 PM UTC

Damn, I've spent the past 30 minutes trying to update my DNS and playing with my router config! :)

No GitHub, well, it's gonna be a fun Friday...

#8

Post by dudul » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

And there is no twitter to tweet about it!!!

#9

Post by wnm » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

Heroku also seems to be affected. I'm getting this when I run 'heroku status':

>> We are seeing a widespread DNS issue affecting connections to our services both internally and externally.

#10

Post by artursapek » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

Twitter, Reddit, wow. I was so confused for a moment. Thankfully HN is here to explain.