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DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

#31

Relevant (or at least a-propos) post by Bruce Schneier, from a month ago: "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le... Edit: And to be clear: I don't mean to imply there's any connection :)

>We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.

Why not the USA?

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Damn, I've spent the past 30 minutes trying to update my DNS and playing with my router config! :) No GitHub, well, it's gonna be a fun Friday...

Isn't it the whole idea of git to make user independent from place like github? After all if you have the repository on your local machine you can continue working as if nothing happened, right?

Build server (e.g. CircleCI, Travis, etc), reviewing/merging pull requests, accessing 3rd party library READMEs. You know, doing software stuff.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

#33

Relevant (or at least a-propos) post by Bruce Schneier, from a month ago: "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le... Edit: And to be clear: I don't mean to imply there's any connection :)

>We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses. Why not the USA?

With the elections coming, USA would be on the top of my list.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it the whole idea of git to make user independent from place like github? After all if you have the repository on your local machine you can continue working as if nothing happened, right?

Build server (e.g. CircleCI, Travis, etc), reviewing/merging pull requests, accessing 3rd party library READMEs. You know, doing software stuff.

Most of this stuff you should have locally, and not depend on 3rd party websites.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

#38
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I'm updating a list of confirmed outages as I see them here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520 So far twitter, etsy, soundcloud, spotify, github, pagerduty...crazy that this can even happen

They all work fine for me.

Me too. I'm in Spain - definitely seems to be geographical.

Re: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses. Why not the USA?

With the elections coming, USA would be on the top of my list.

why?
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