DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS • Hacker News Board

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by balls187 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:19 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #31

scrollaway wrote: post #18

Relevant (or at least a-propos) post by Bruce Schneier, from a month ago: "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le... Edit: And to be clear: I don't mean to imply there's any connection :)

>We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses. Why not the USA?

Russia retaliating for the US taking out the ESA Mars Drone.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by jessemillar » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

ohblahitsme wrote: post #169

Twitter and Github are still down here in LA (and confirmed on isup.me)

Both are down here in Utah too.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by devnull42 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

Dyn reporting another attack started at 15:52 UTC.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by marcoslater » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:25 PM UTC

It seems to have just gone again. This time everywhere, not just US-EAST. O.o

Edit: Seems its hitting their anycasted ranges and taking everything off with it. Even their status page appears to be offline from here.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by zrail » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

mugsie wrote: post #141

pyvpx wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

more accurately, they don't support the common standard methodologies for transferring zone data between primary and secondary name servers (like NOTIFY, AXFR, etc). there is nothing stopping you from having Route53 and $others as NS records for your domains. You just have to make sure they stay consistent. Apparently from the linked discussion, there are people offering scripts and services to do just that.

Keeping Serial numbers in sync can be basically impossible.

Serial numbers don't matter if you're not using NOTIFY/AXFR.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by raemike123 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

USA cyber defenses are NOT up to the task of defending our critical electronic infrastructure. Letting every company that runs critical services decide their own security posture is not scalable and has left us vulnerable. While no one is getting hurt, we are taking cyber missile hits from our enemies and eventually the damage will be worse. Other countries with more central controls will be less vulnerable than we are to crippling infrastructure take downs.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by flowless » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

jessemillar wrote: post #172

ohblahitsme wrote: post #169

Twitter and Github are still down here in LA (and confirmed on isup.me)

Both are down here in Utah too.

New attack incoming https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by mplewis » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:27 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #153

nickbauman wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prediction: A massive, sustained attack will occur on key US Internet infra on election night in an attempt to debase the US election results.

It's okay. James Comey, the FBI chief, said the US electoral system is such a mess, it would be too hard for an attacker to hack it or damage its integrity in any way. It's all good. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160912/16553435504/fbi-d... Of course, he said nothing about internal rigging : https://twitter.com/TweetBrettMac/status/789372518436052992

Please keep the unfounded conspiracy theories off Hacker News. Thank you.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by trusche » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:28 PM UTC

jessemillar wrote: post #172

ohblahitsme wrote: post #169

Twitter and Github are still down here in LA (and confirmed on isup.me)

Both are down here in Utah too.

Same from Ireland.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by briandear » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:28 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #31

scrollaway wrote: post #18

Relevant (or at least a-propos) post by Bruce Schneier, from a month ago: "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le... Edit: And to be clear: I don't mean to imply there's any connection :)

>We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses. Why not the USA?

Why would they attack themselves?