[132988] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Fri Dec 3 08:22:31 2010
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikV9S=3si11VO=RLF=R=fa1zZADJKaxJUMtioyG@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:22:19 -0600
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I guess the USG's cyberwar program does work (very dryly said).
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 1:39 AM
To: Jack Bates
Cc: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)
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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
FYI:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101202/22322512099/wikileaks-says-its-=
si
te-has-been-killed.shtml
- - ferg
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