[174327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More Godaddy DNS and whois server issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Thu Sep 4 12:55:57 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
In-Reply-To: <540891D1.9020501@viviotech.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:55:43 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Mark Keymer <mark@viviotech.net> wrote:
> Hi,
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> So this started a little while ago but seems to be getting worse.
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> What I am seeing is dns servers over at godaddy not replying however I =
seem to be able to traceroute ok to them. Also I have started to see =
that the whois.godaddy.com servers also seem to be having issues as well =
with "Whois information is currently unavailable. Please try again =
later."
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> Anyone else also seeing issues this morning? And able to confirm the =
issue is with godaddy?
I've seen reports of this for a week or so, with the symptoms looking =
like overly aggressive abuse / query rate handling - packets from =
networks containing busy resolvers being blocked.
Grapevine tells me that they don't think they're doing it intentionally =
(maybe they outsourced something and it broke?).
Cheers,
Steve
