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DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by tinco »

jschuur wrote: post #8
tinco wrote: post #5

Weird, I haven't researched DNS as well as I should have. I always lived under the impression that there was this extensive DNS cache network where intermediaries responded to queries with cached results from root DNS servers. Instead, the second that this DDos hits is the second we have websites stopping working. How is it that in this day and age we can't have distributed caches of DNS entries at our providers of f…

Depends on the TTL (time to live) settings for the DNS entries, doesn't it?

Yes, perhaps there lies our folly. It's the choice between being flexible in ability to move our servers really quick, or being tolerant of DNS servers going down.

I sort of hoped that a DNS client would just use an expired DNS result in case the servers would not respond, but perhaps that is naieve/dumb.

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by jyap »

jschuur wrote: post #10
zrail wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I moved most of my stuff to Route53 awhile back and for the most part I don't regret it.

Pricing doesn't seem too bad. $0.50 for a zone (domain) and $0.50 for a billion queries: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

Correction on the queries pricing:

$0.500 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month

$0.250 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by zrail »

jschuur wrote: post #10
zrail wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I moved most of my stuff to Route53 awhile back and for the most part I don't regret it.

Pricing doesn't seem too bad. $0.50 for a zone (domain) and $0.50 for a billion queries: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

Yep. I had been hesitating on moving more domains over to Route53 because I thought the per-zone pricing was fixed at $0.50 per domain, but it actually scales really well. I'm going to move the rest over to Route53 as soon as I have a chance.

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by nubela »

ted0 wrote: post #15

We are in the process of mitigating a large scale DDoS attack against our global DNS platform. We expect service to return to normal very shortly. Stay tuned and let me know if you have any questions. ted@namecheap.com

Yes please, thank you :) All my domains are down now but I understand how shitty (the panic!) it feels to have things going down. I'll be checking this.
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