UltraDNS Failure?
Shrdlu
shrdlu at deaddrop.org
Thu Dec 24 02:02:46 UTC 2009
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:38:21PM -0800, Shrdlu wrote:
>
>>I'm still seeing the DNS servers at udns down, hard. Amazon's cloud will
>>need a reboot when this is over. Dang, what the heck happened to all
>>that anycast stuff?
>
>
> We have some DNS providing type customers (not UltraDNS) receiving a few
> million packets/sec of UDP/53 DoS traffic, starting at about the same
> time as the UltraDNS problems. No clue if it's related, but it certainly
> sounds suspicious. :)
I saw close to a hundred hits on my local dns servers for one request,
and they were mostly due to the crazy amazon cloud stuff. You looking at
the packets?
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