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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by druiid »

mongol wrote: post #267
druiid wrote: post #238

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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.

Yes but still.. why so very very nervous? I value that they get things working as soon as possible. After that I can switch.

I'd say (although until seeing the DDoS numbers, I suppose I can't assume anything) that any large hosting provider like this should have an infrastructure in place for taking care of a large attack like this. To have any less at this late a stage in the game for them, speaks of a general enough incompetence as to be enough reason to move services, let alone 'political' type reasons.

I've seen (and experienced) 10Gigabit+ DDoS attacks and generally they end up taking down the entire data-center, but that's smaller provider levels. I can't imagine that level of attack should take down Godaddy, but then who knows what they're actually running behind the scenes. Essentially, what I'm saying... is this is a large enough issue with the internet today that a provider this large should have had at least SOME protections in place for this already (And perhaps Verisign might have been a decent enough choice, or Prolexic...).

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by mongol »

I have a kind of unvoluntary ping to my mailbox hosted at Gmail / Google Apps, "Buy Vigara" (sic) messages that arrive with a few minutes intervals since months ago. Google sorts them as spam correctly, but it is interesting to see how they are less and less frequent over the past hours. (Yes my domain is on godaddy)

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by mongol »

druiid wrote: post #271
mongol wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but still.. why so very very nervous? I value that they get things working as soon as possible. After that I can switch.

I'd say (although until seeing the DDoS numbers, I suppose I can't assume anything) that any large hosting provider like this should have an infrastructure in place for taking care of a large attack like this. To have any less at this late a stage in the game for them, speaks of a general enough incompetence as to be enough reason to move services, let alone 'political' type reasons. I've seen (and experienced) 10Gig…

Yes.. it is very bad of them, I agree. I just don't see the point in being very nervous. They will sort it out and I can switch. It is not like my domain is stolen and can't be taken back.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by DASD »

saurik wrote: post #252
qeorge wrote: post #56

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This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.

So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be…

Unfortunately lack of hosting-related knowledge is indicative through and through here even to the actual startups out of YC. Is it too much to ask for someone to know the latest buzz about Rails but can't spell DNS? Good luck if you choose this as your crusade to educate.

http://syskall.com/yc-w12-startups-hosting-decisions

http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by assaflavie »

mmaunder wrote: post #264
RandallBrown wrote: post #258

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I have seen my GoDaddy sites coming on one at a time over the last hour. They are making progress.

www.godaddy.com DNS is back and site is up with a "we're down" message.

GoDaddy.com should really switch to another DNS provider.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by agentgt »

saurik wrote: post #252
qeorge wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.

So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be…

The beloved GitHub uses GoDaddy as their registrar :)

I don't know why people are upset about talking about GoDaddy. Its interesting news.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by jen_h »

jread wrote: post #243
jen_h wrote: post #212

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Namecheap is a fabulous hosting provider. Love 'em. That said, highly-redundant DDOS-resistant DNS infrastructure is not their focus--they offer it as a free service with hosting, but it's best to cough up a few extra bucks and move your DNS to something more robust with AnyCast (DNS Made Easy, Route53...) when you can if uptime's important to you. Check this out for real-time query speed testing: http://cloudharmony…

I created this DNS test. If your are evaluating DNS services, you might also check out a blog post I wrote last month summarizing the results we've collected from the DNS tests: http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2012/08/comparison-and-analysis...

Wow - you're seriously a hero. Thanks so much for building the test and thanks (even more) for the blog post (especially the legwork on pricing). I look forward to the day when "can we jump on a call?" sales processes are well and truly dead and self-service and transparent pricing is the norm.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by mattacular »

jlgreco wrote: post #250
mattacular wrote: post #232

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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...?

> (informal, sometimes proscribed^)[1][2] Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. [from the 1640s] > ^ Some authorities proscribe the last sense, "contradiction of circumstances and expectations, condition contrary to what might be expected"[2], but it has been common since the 1600s.[3] Close enough for government work. Definitional pedantism aside, I think…

To be really pedantic, your assumption that there was some expectation that my post would not be snarky is fallacious. Why do you hold that expectation? See, I wasn't the one calling out the snark, I was just pointing out what from the OP could be considered snarky, and I did it in a snarky way. That isn't irony just because you held the (incorrect) belief that for some reason (again, what reason?) my response post could/should not be snarky. That is all besides the fact that you had to dig up a proscribed definition of irony from god knows where to support your faulty premise.

Nice try though.

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