[132975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Dec 3 02:29:42 2010
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:29:26 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2y687fmus.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/2/2010 11:26 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> so, if the site to which a dns entry points suffers a ddos, everydns
> will no longer serve the domain. i hope they apply this policy even
> handedly to all sufferers of ddos.
>
Given "These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the
stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to
almost 500,000 other websites." I'd say they had DOS issues with their
nameservers. They can't be expected to let their other domains go down
in efforts to protect a single domain.
I'm guessing they weathered the problem somewhat, as they actually gave
24h notice. However, excessive loads and constant monitoring and
protective measures on a free service would definitely be something a
company would want to stop.
Jack
