[113107] 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 02:43:47 2009
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:40:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Pirk <orion@pirk.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904012205540.16907@mail.pirk.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steve Pirk wrote:
> 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?
Thought of one more thing...
Wasn't Conficker also configured to try and register a ton of randomly
generated domains? Two registrars go dark today?
Ok, put the imagination on hold...
--
Steve
Equal bytes for women.
