[120551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UltraDNS Failure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Wed Dec 23 20:42:41 2009
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:42:00 -0600
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B32C60D.10507@deaddrop.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:38:21PM -0800, Shrdlu wrote:
> I'm still seeing the DNS servers at udns down, hard. Amazon's cloud will
> need a reboot when this is over. Dang, what the heck happened to all
> that anycast stuff?
We have some DNS providing type customers (not UltraDNS) receiving a few
million packets/sec of UDP/53 DoS traffic, starting at about the same
time as the UltraDNS problems. No clue if it's related, but it certainly
sounds suspicious. :)
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