[110928] in North American Network Operators' Group
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