[120553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UltraDNS Failure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shrdlu)
Wed Dec 23 21:01:26 2009
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:02:46 -0800
From: Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091224014200.GF75640@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> 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. :)
I saw close to a hundred hits on my local dns servers for one request,
and they were mostly due to the crazy amazon cloud stuff. You looking at
the packets?
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