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Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by atom_enger »

pepon wrote: post #256
paulddraper wrote: post #191

I thought DNS (particularly public) was basically immune to DDoS? If one DNS server is down, use the cached result or another server. DNS is some of the most distributable, cachable data I can imagine.

Seriously, please someone explain this. I thought DNS info is propagated among DNS servers, and it is cached on all of them... How can an attack to a single DNS company cause this outage??

Explained above for ya

Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by blazinDC »

xtracto wrote: post #258
6d6b73 wrote: post #32

All this talk about redundancy, real-time apps, scalable architecture and and a "simple" DDOS against DNS architecture brings half of the internet down. Honestly did nobody think about having a spare dns at some other company? or even backup dns server exactly for a situation like that?

Maybe it is time to widely adopt namecoin ?

Yes!! For sure, after such an attack it will force the internet into rethinking their DNS strategies. Why commit to having a single point of weakness?

For those interested: https://namecoin.org/

Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by aledalgrande »

hosts file settings:

- to deploy to Heroku

  174.129.22.147 git.heroku.com
- to enable Twitter from Web

  104.244.42.65 twitter.com
  93.184.220.70 pbs.twimg.com
  104.244.43.7 o.twimg.com
- to access Github (as another poster wrote):

  192.30.253.113 github.com
  151.101.4.133 assets-cdn.github.com
You can find any other IPs you need on sites like http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi

Just remember to rollback your hosts file after the outage finishes.

Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by xXCrusherXxFTW »

pamvegas wrote: post #242
bhaak wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From where I'm looking at the internet (central Europe), I don't notice anything. Maybe your internet on the other side of the Atlantic is broken, ours seems to be working fine. ;-) Edit: Looks like the eastern part of the USA is affected: https://cloudharmony.com/status-for-dyn

I'm in Las Vegas and I haven't had access to several sites all day. I don't think this is limited to eastern U.S.

Same Im in Illinios and I can't play destiny which is made by bungie which is down for some fucking reason

Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by matobago »

This is not a dyn error, this is all the companies failed to prevent this to happen, is an old practice having different NS Servers for your domain, but it can prevent this to happen.

Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by jasonfb »

It appears that people (domain name administrators) are switching away from Dyn as their DNS provider, as per https://status.heroku.com/incidents/965 (issued 19:21 UTC). Does this mean that other DNS providers (Amazon Route 53, CDNetworks, CloudFlare, DNSimple, easyDNS, Google DNS, Verisign, OpenDNS) could potentially become targets?

-Jason (5:13 PM EDT; 21:13 UTC)

Re: Massive Dyn DNS outage

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Post by jasonfb »

confirmed three (3) coordinated attacks on Dyn's infrastructure today: 11:10 UTC, 13:52 GTM, and the third time is unknown -- Dyn has not specified the time of the 3rd attack today on their dynstatus.com page (likely because the whole thing can be considered ongoing). Can anyone speak to when the 3rd attack began today?
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