Sure someone will post this as a new story, but it appears DNS services are back online. I checked a few of the sites I manage and they are now working.
Now I need to bust a nut and get things moved off ASAP.
GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here I'll help you find the snark: start by reading the first sentence.
The irony here is just sickening.
Are you trying to say that it is ironic because my post is also snarky? If so, I think you need to a) go do some research on the concept of irony and then b) point out where I claimed to not be snarky...?
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#233Sure someone will post this as a new story, but it appears DNS services are back online. I checked a few of the sites I manage and they are now working. Now I need to bust a nut and get things moved off ASAP.
It was back briefly for me, and now it's down again.
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#234I'm assuming they're adding the Verisign DDoS protection service, but this change should make EVERY single Godaddy client very, very, very nervous (from the current whois):
Domain Name: GODADDY.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: A1.VERISIGNDNS.COM
Name Server: A2.VERISIGNDNS.COM
Name Server: A3.VERISIGNDNS.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 10-sep-2012
Creation Date: 02-mar-1999
Expiration Date: 01-nov-2021
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#235I'm assuming they're adding the Verisign DDoS protection service, but this change should make EVERY single Godaddy client very, very, very nervous (from the current whois): Domain Name: GODADDY.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: A1.VERISIGNDNS.COM Name Server: A2.VERISIGNDNS.COM Name Server: A3.VERISIGNDNS.COM Status: clientDeletePro…
That's a very interesting observation. When you say it should make current clients nervous, what angle are you thinking of? The angle that they should be nervous because GoDaddy had to go to someone else for this type of service or that Verisign is now involved?
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#236I recently rented a VPS specifically so I could run my own DNS. I use tinydns[1] on the VPS as a stealth primary to host my zones and then use BuddyNS[2] as my secondary. It works seamlessly and wasn't that hard to set up if you know how to work a command line. Of course, if someone were to do this same thing to BuddyNS I would be up a creek for a little while, but I could just login to Namecheap and point to a diffe…
With API controllable services like CloudFlare (free) and Route 53 (cheap) why would you want the headache of running your own server?
Mostly for the knowledge that only comes from doing it myself. I looked into using Route53 but I would have had to build something for my dynamic DNS anyway.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I don't understand why I can't downvote despite being a newer user.
I'm an older user and I can't down vote. Please for the love of Paul Graham, give us a little info on what to expect when participate on the HN forum.
Negative karma. There's nothing wrong with your comments, but they're better suited for the more casual atmosphere of Reddit. (which is why I like Reddit more)
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#238I'm assuming they're adding the Verisign DDoS protection service, but this change should make EVERY single Godaddy client very, very, very nervous (from the current whois): Domain Name: GODADDY.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: A1.VERISIGNDNS.COM Name Server: A2.VERISIGNDNS.COM Name Server: A3.VERISIGNDNS.COM Status: clientDeletePro…
That's a very interesting observation. When you say it should make current clients nervous, what angle are you thinking of? The angle that they should be nervous because GoDaddy had to go to someone else for this type of service or that Verisign is now involved?
The angle that a company responsible for hosting DNS, site hosting, SSL and similar services is incapable of bringing their own site back up without resorting to using a competitors services.
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#239Some data that may help:
If you're in the rare situation of using GoDaddy DNS but don't use them as a registrar, then you're in luck. Simply sign up with a new DNS provider. They will give you their DNS servers which you need to set as the DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain. Then sign into your registrar and change the authoritative DNS servers for your domain. There will be a propagation delay but once it's done you're all set.
If you are in the extremely common situation of having registered your domain through GoDaddy and also use their DNS service, then you have a problem because to move to another DNS provider you need to sign into GoDaddy.com to make the change I've described above i.e. change which DNS provider is authoritative for your domain. You can't do this until GoDaddy.com is back online. So what I suggest is that you sign up for a new DNS provider and then keep checking GoDaddy.com. As soon as it comes back online, sign in and make the change to your new provider as quick as you can.
Other data:
Whois requests for godaddy domains are currently failing because whois.godaddy.com is offline due to name resolution failure.
Godaddy's twitter feed is a good source of updates, although they are claiming to be making progress and all my godaddy DNS hosted domains are still offline, so it seems to be more marketing speak than real data: https://twitter.com/godaddy
As mentioned, Anonymous seems to be behind it as three tweets on their twitter account seem to indicate: https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion
I don't think the scale of this attack is fully understood yet. According to the CBC, GoDaddy hosts over 5 million websites (not sure if that's DNS, registrar, etc) so expect this to be big news and potentially the next political football.
Edit: And finally, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is down for everyone because it's over quota. Via Reddit which is also covering this: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/znvwk/godaddycom...
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#240Looks like the primary server cluster that handles all the incoming traffic at godaddy for all their went down. This caused the traffic failover to secondary servers which where unable to handle the load and crash. ETA is 6 hours
How did you come by this information?