DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 • Hacker News Board

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

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Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by jik » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

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

Just for future reference, it's usually considered a good idea to put your status page on completely independent infrastructure so that it stays up even when the rest of your stuff goes down. A status page that doesn't work during an outage isn't particularly useful.

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by w0ts0n » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

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

You guys should really put a notice on your homepage or something.

Good luck.

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by kitnos » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

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

do you have ETA?

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by cobrabyte » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

avb wrote: post #3

Any good suggestions for alternative DNS providers?

We've been stoked with DNSimple.

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by kennhardy » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

jik wrote: post #22

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

Just for future reference, it's usually considered a good idea to put your status page on completely independent infrastructure so that it stays up even when the rest of your stuff goes down. A status page that doesn't work during an outage isn't particularly useful.

Like!

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by t3ra » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

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

WOOH the Akamai realtime attack visualization is completely red at the moment: http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by benmorris » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

zrail wrote: post #7

avb wrote: post #3

Any good suggestions for alternative DNS providers?

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

I've considered doing this also!

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by jmreid » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

zrail wrote: post #7

avb wrote: post #3

Any good suggestions for alternative DNS providers?

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

Yes, Route 53 has been great for me as well. I have my crucial DNS zones hosted there. But all the other stuff was on Namecheap's name servers.

I'll probably continue with that setup, but just make sure my TTL is set fairly high.

Re: DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

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Post by MuratC » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

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

You need to provide some gift to your customers for this downtime. I am using NC for 10 years, every time on bad issues I continue to use. But this outage very bad, I lost money...