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Re: NetSol / WorldNIC nameservers continue to be down, for a couple

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Jan 23 16:03:46 2009

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:58:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
In-Reply-To: <497A2EAD.5050000@everydns.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

      On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, David Ulevitch wrote:
    > Does anyone have any contact at NetSol / WorldNIC?

Yes.

    > Their nameservers (all hundred+ of them) have been down or severely
    > degraded in service over the last 48 hours.

Yes, they're very well aware of it.  They've been under very large-scale 
UDP/53 DDoS for that period of time.  They're continuing to work the 
problem.

                                -Bill



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