[62391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Thu Sep 18 01:28:18 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:27:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0309180044580.22249@server.duh.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
TV> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:50:28 -0400 (EDT)
TV> From: Todd Vierling
TV> tld[12].ultradns.net, the NS for .ORG, was completely
TV> unreachable for about an hour or two this evening, timing out
TV> on all DNS queries. Anyone else see similar? (The hosts are
I don't recall having troubles this evening. Perhaps there was a
DoS or something pounding the anycast node you were hitting?
With multiple sinkholes, it's no longer "all or nothing".
Anycast is good stuff, IMHO, but not impervious to flooding.
Eddy
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