GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down • Hacker News Board

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by druiid » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:32 PM UTC

druiid wrote: post #234

I'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…

And in case anyone doesn't believe this:

Default server: a1.verisigndns.com Address: 2001:500:7967::2:33#53 > www.godaddy.com Server: a1.verisigndns.com Address: 209.112.113.33#53

Name: www.godaddy.com Address: 184.168.227.107

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by Dylan16807 » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:34 PM UTC

crisnoble wrote: post #172

larrys wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote." I didn't downvote you. But you might have gotten downvoted because you said "If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get." w/o giving links or further information. The things you are thinking might not be obvious to everyone.

Anyone this far into the chain might be interested in the following links: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy... http://gizmodo.com/5870559/as-if-you-needed-another-reason-t... http://www.salmanahsan.com/godaddy-sucks/ http://www.oooff.com/blacklist/why-godaddy-sucks.php http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/why-i-left-godaddy/ From what I gather you should take your money elsewhere because:…

And none of those are service problems. They don't support the initial post.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by jread » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:34 PM UTC

jen_h wrote: post #212

alexanderh wrote: post #178

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It does not say .com names are $3.99 It is slightly misleading (since the default search box is for .com), but all it says is "DOMAINS FROM 3.99" which is absolutely true. Some .info domains go for as low as $3.99 That is nowhere near as bad as GoDaddy's upselling crap PLUS namecheap's configuration and control panels are really nice to use. Comparing GoDaddy to NameCheap is like comparing MySpace (before the last ma…

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...

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by jackalope » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

ry0ohki wrote: post #84

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #71

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And yet every other month we have posts about password breaches with tons of HN users complaining about having to change their passwords. Or we have posts from people who didn't back up their data and their cloud provider lost it, or experienced hardware failure. Or we have technically savvy people who dismiss GoDaddy problems or have literally in the past said "It's good enough, we'll just stay because it's easy". S…

The reasons not to use GoDaddy in the past have been entirely moral/political, not technical. I've been using them for 10 years without a DNS issue like this, so it's not quite the same thing.

I run my own DNS, so this outage isn't affecting me.

But I've also been migrating my domains away from GoDaddy for purely technical reasons.

One is that the UI is constantly changing, with its sole goal to be deliberately counterintuitive. There are key places where it tells you click on a link, without just offering the link right there, so you have to hunt it down on the page. Crazy.

But the worst one is that I can no longer read their emails in mutt. At all. It was refreshing to get simple notifications from Namecheap that were short and easy to read.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by aeden » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

knodi wrote: post #230

Looks 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

Do you have a link to where you found this? Sounds interesting.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ajennings » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:36 PM UTC

1. Add the following lines to your hosts file (/etc/hosts on unix/osx, \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows):

  216.69.149.215 mya.godaddy.com
  216.69.149.90 idp.godaddy.com
  216.69.149.9 dcc.godaddy.com

2. Go to https://mya.godaddy.com/ to manage your GoDaddy accounts.

3. Change DNS providers.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by singlow » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:41 PM UTC

dvanduzer wrote: post #167

benologist wrote: post #145

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Migrating DNS is easy: 1) Get a new DNS server. I use http://dnspark.net/ and even though their website is very ugly and there's no API, they're tremendous value at $10 - $14 per year 2) In your registrar's page (godaddy) change your DNS servers for your domain to whatever your new ones are.

Route53 is currently $6+ per year per domain.

$0.50 per hosted zone / month for the first 25 hosted zones $0.10 per hosted zone / month for additional hosted zones

$0.500 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month $0.250 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month

I host about 70 zones and pay less than 20 dollars a month. There's no minimum, so I would expect a single zone to cost less than $2. You would need to get 10 million queries to reach $6.

[Edit: Facepalm - I just realized you said per year]

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:42 PM UTC

watty wrote: post #222

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #213

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It was a hosted WordPress blog. That by default makes it their fault. If WP weren't up to date, it's their fault. If the host for the shared instance were hacked and files were added to all of the shared installations (which is what happened), it's their fault. The problem was, the malware was only visible when the referrer was "Google", so they claimed there was nothing wrong. For weeks.

I'm not sure I follow your logic. GoDaddy may make it easy for you to install WordPress but it's still up to the owner to go in and update WordPress and Plugins. I'm not saying it wasn't GoDaddy but claiming it was definitively seems a little silly...

I don't know as I didn't set it up, but I've used shared cpanels in the past and they give you one-click WordPress installs and advertised as a "one-click full solution".

Either way, when it came down to it, one of their other shared clients were compromised and their sandboxing was rather insufficient leading to most of the clients on that box having some sort of malware installed. I'm sure the person in question was targeted because it looked like a standard install and frankly, if I was targeting shared hosting providers, I'd create my malware to be easy to integrate with WordPress.

I hope that makes it more clear why I find it to be GoDaddy's fault. In the end of the day, they understood what was wrong, apologized and fixed it.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by robbiemitchell » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:44 PM UTC

bwhite wrote: post #217

watty wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely agree. The small business I work for has used GoDaddy from the start and has had outstanding uptime. Sure the interface is horrible but that doesn't affect our customers. So, now what do we switch to?

You want EasyDNS ( https://web.easydns.com/ ). Transparent, care about (D)DOS, pretty good UI.

Any rec(s) for a .fm domain?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by jlgreco » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 9:44 PM UTC

mattacular wrote: post #232

jlgreco wrote: post #110

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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...?

> (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 my point is clear.