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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by jlgreco »

mattacular wrote: post #280
jlgreco wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (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…

To be really pedantic, your assumption that there was some expectation that my post would not be snarky is fallacious. Why do you hold that expectation? See, I wasn't the one calling out the snark, I was just pointing out what from the OP could be considered snarky, and I did it in a snarky way. That isn't irony just because you held the (incorrect) belief that for some reason (again, what reason?) my response post c…

I suppose my error was giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you did not actually intend to be snarky.

Also, read that definition again. It is not archaic, it is modern "it has been common since the 1600s". This definition was pulled from wiktionary.

So to review, I dared use the word "irony" in an informal fashion, and you are a snarky pedant.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by wethesheeple »

In other news, IP addresses are still working. ;)

So what can we conclude from this incident?

GoDaddy's registrar service GoDaddy's authoritative DNS service GoDaddy's hosting service GoDaddy SSL certificates etc.

They are all different services. When you link them all together and give GoDaddy control over your entire setup, if there's a problem with any one service, you can't recover as easily as if they were each handled independently. meme: "Do one thing well."

"All-in-one" solutions, though they might provide convenience, might come at a cost in terms of disaster recovery. meme: SPOF

I wonder if this thinking might also apply to software: using a single, large "all-in-one" program versus using lots of smaller, independent (and replaceable) programs.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by lobster45 »

This has been a known vulnerability for dns, as they are susceptible to DOS. We use network solutions for DNS but they can be taken down in a similar manner as GoDaddy.

BTW one of the servers we needed to access did not resolve, but I was able to connect via IP instead of DNS. Host file baby!

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by philh »

saurik wrote: post #252
qeorge wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.

So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be…

There is so much that "should" be prerequisite knowledge, that people simply can't know it all.

I admit that I know very little about DNS, to the point where I don't understand large parts of your post. I have a website, and I vaguely remember doing stuff to get the domain name to resolve, years ago. I know roughly that DNS translates domain names to IP addresses, but not much more. I'm okay with not knowing much more than that. I'm confident I can learn if necessary, but so far I've been learning the prerequisite knowledge of other fields.

If I was using godaddy, this thread would be helpful to me.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by hughesey »

baseh wrote: post #251
mmaunder wrote: post #239

Some data that may help: If you're in the rare situation of using GoDaddy DNS but don't use them as a registrar, then you're in luck. Simply sign up with a new DNS provider. They will give you their DNS servers which you need to set as the DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain. Then sign into your registrar and change the authoritative DNS servers for your domain. There will be a propagation delay but on…

>> And finally, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is down for everyone because it's over quota We need a new site: http://www.is-downforeveryoneorjustme-downforeveryoneorjustm... Sorry for the useless comment

Have you tried http://www.viewdns.info/ismysitedown/ ?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by etagwerker »

mmaunder wrote: post #239

Some data that may help: If you're in the rare situation of using GoDaddy DNS but don't use them as a registrar, then you're in luck. Simply sign up with a new DNS provider. They will give you their DNS servers which you need to set as the DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain. Then sign into your registrar and change the authoritative DNS servers for your domain. There will be a propagation delay but on…

> You can't do this until GoDaddy.com is back online.

You actually can. You will have to modify your /etc/hosts file, go to your GoDaddy account and change to a new DNS service (name servers)

I followed the instructions in this post and I solved the GoDaddy hell for my sites:

http://davewasmer.tumblr.com/post/31283249223/migrating-from...

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by watty »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #248
watty wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 wa…

Well here's how it works. GoDaddy and all other host's "one-click" is installation only. It doesn't auto-update your WordPress install so yours likely contained an old security exploit and was easily hacked. This is by design, it would be bad to install a WP theme and then have your website broken because it auto-updated WP.

Even so, you never answered my original question. How'd you determine it was a sandboxing problem rather than your own WordPress installation being compromised? Seems even less so considering you didn't realize you had to update WordPress yourself.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by robomartin »

mmaunder wrote: post #239

Some data that may help: If you're in the rare situation of using GoDaddy DNS but don't use them as a registrar, then you're in luck. Simply sign up with a new DNS provider. They will give you their DNS servers which you need to set as the DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain. Then sign into your registrar and change the authoritative DNS servers for your domain. There will be a propagation delay but on…

godaddy.com is back up as of 4:45PM PST
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