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DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by wsul »

pyvpx wrote: post #120
dijit wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Realistically they compete with Neustar which is shockingly expensive and has less features and is harder to use. I chose Dyn over Neustar (UltraDNS) when it was time to renew contracts because it was 60% cheaper, had a better latency, their support was great and the interfaces were clear. Not a fanboy or anything, I really don't like how aggressively they hound me now (even though I have nothing to do with DNS for m…

they are cheap compared to Neustar. And Neustar is priced like a Bugatti. Dyn is more Porsche pricing.

Check out NS1.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by j_s »

altyus wrote: post #36

For me redirecting my DNS to Google public DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 did the trick.

I added the following to my hosts file for today:

  #8:07 AM 10/21/2016
  199.16.156.70 twitter.com
  104.244.43.231 abs.twimg.com
  104.244.43.231 pbs.twimg.com
  192.30.253.113 github.com
  151.101.24.133 assets-cdn.github.com
after giving up on modifying DNS timeouts. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stdqry/2011/12/14/dns-cl...

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by ljosa »

FartyBumMcPoops wrote: post #122
jgrahamc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? It's unclear there's any connection between that vague article and Dyn's problems today.

http://dyn.com/blog/post-mortem-attack-to-dyn-standard-dns-n...

Let's hope they update that page after today's incident.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by rsa4096 »

dijit wrote: post #116
redm wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They sell premium services, have a large sales team, and are very aggressive. I get emails from them weekly discussing millisecond savings of their DNS solutions and the value increase in customers and sales. Squeaky wheels get grease and their sales team squeaks a lot.

Realistically they compete with Neustar which is shockingly expensive and has less features and is harder to use. I chose Dyn over Neustar (UltraDNS) when it was time to renew contracts because it was 60% cheaper, had a better latency, their support was great and the interfaces were clear. Not a fanboy or anything, I really don't like how aggressively they hound me now (even though I have nothing to do with DNS for m…

DNS Made Easy is even cheaper. They have a massive infrastructure and consistently have less latency than either of these providers.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Post by mxuribe »

foobarbecue wrote: post #131

According to Fortune, Hacker News "reported" on the incident. Are we journalists now? "Popular tech site Hacker News reported many other sites were affected including Etsy, Spotify, Github, Soundcloud, and Heroku." -- http://fortune.com/2016/10/21/internet-outages/

No, not necessarily journalists; rahter, an information source...Fortune - a site/company known for journalism/reporting - now just gave HackerNews more legitimacy as an official information source...Now with this power, please use it responsibly. ;-)
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