GoDaddy DDoS

Thu Dec 1 08:12:48 UTC 2005

It could be a DoS that used a software vulnerability though.

On 12/1/05, Christopher L. Morrow <christopher.morrow at mci.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
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> > the source I have seen so far is:
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> > http://news.com.com/GoDaddy.com+suffers
> > +outage/2110-7349_3-5977187.html?tag=nefd.hed
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> stuck through tinyurl for those that care:
> http://tinyurl.com/83hxp
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> > So I was looking for more details....
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> apparently it affected web and mail, so I'd assume someone targetted their
> DNS hosts :( bummer for them... if they were a customer we could have
> helped. They seem to be ATT customers, Tim could probably have helped them
> as well... perhaps calling their ISP's for assitance would have made the
> affect less than 65 mins?  and thus less press-worthy :(
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> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:11 +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
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> > > > Does anybody have information regarding to size and scale of the
> DDoS
> > > > attack purported to have happened against GoDaddy today?
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> > > nope... but against their:
> > > 1) dns servers?
> > > 2) web servers?
> > > 3) mail servers?
> > > 4) networking equipment?
> > > 5) none of the above?
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