OT: Register.com DDOS Attack
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BasketballJones
Posts: 31973 Alba Posts: 19 Joined: 7/16/2002 Member: #290 USA |
4/3/2009 10:33 PM
The real reason UK was down....
WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain name registrar Register.com (www.register.com) has been hit by denial-of-service attacks, causing intermittent outages for the past 48 hours as it works to fix the problem. Register.com executive vice president Roni Jacobson said that the company is working with large Internet service providers including Comcast, CableVision and Time Warner to restore service. According to the company's Twitter feed, CableVision customers should have their service restored. Register.com's official twitter feed noted on Wednesday at 4:19 pm that "most if not all service disruptions [had] been fixed," however, the situation did not resolve, and yesterday, Register.com reported that it had been hit by a DDoS attack, resulting in intermittent outages. The latest Twitter feeds have noted that the Register.com is working with Comcast to fix end user issues. A number of customer complaints have surfaced on Twitter as well, begging the question of what customers who have lost service can expect from Register.com. Jacobson said, "What we've been telling customers is that we will honor our service level agreements." Amidst the growing frustration shown on other online forums, tech blog the Inquirer took this as an opportunity to teach web hosting clients how to avoid DNS problems. Blogger Dean Pullen explains, "[T]here's no reason anyone should be in this situation for any system that is critical or needs a high level of availability." Placing the onus on clients, Pullen suggests that customers running critical applications should have been using a secondary DNS servers using a different provider such as DynDNS.com (www.dyndns.com) or EasyDNS (www.easydns.com). While it's easy to say after the fact, a redundant DNS server is about $10 or $15 per domain per year. While customers continue to Tweet about service outages, some have seen this as an opportunity to convert customers. Twitter user "GoDaddySpecial" has been Tweeting responses to disgruntled customers, "You can try Godaddy. They are having a sale and much more reliable than register.com[.]" http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/040309_Registercom_Falls_Prey_to_DDoS_Attack https://
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OT: Register.com DDOS Attack