[113106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Pirk)
Thu Apr 2 01:14:31 2009
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:11:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Pirk <orion@pirk.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090401183707.0e00462c@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500
> Erich Kolb <ekolb@kolbsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear
>> that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise.
>>
> Hmm -- UltraDNS was attacked; I wonder if there's a connection.
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=15601
>
>
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
A few weeks ago, there was tons of dns pounding all over the net.
Today, we see registrars going dark because of dns issues.
Today, people think Conficker will "do" something.
I am puzzled. Maybe it is just 04/01 paranoia?
--
Steve
Equal bytes for women.
