Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...

Mon Sep 10 19:30:32 UTC 2012

Yeah, I heard about downtime from couple of our clients.

Seems like US West coast datacenter has issues specially with DNS. I see
DNS working fine in Asia (via Singapore nodes), and in other parts of US as
well.

Here's a failing DNS node (checking from my Europe test server)

traceroute to 216.69.185.46 (216.69.185.46), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  gw.giga-dns.com (91.194.90.1)  1.141 ms  1.134 ms  1.346 ms
 2  62.140.24.125 (62.140.24.125)  1.835 ms  1.830 ms  1.820 ms
 3  ae-19-19.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.153.246)  6.560 ms  6.560 ms
 6.552 ms
 4  ae-46-46.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.138)  15.286 ms
ae-47-47.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.142)  15.270 ms
ae-45-45.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.134)  15.246 ms
 5  ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54)  95.934 ms  95.928
ms ae-43-43.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.58)  95.820 ms
 6  ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.154)  94.157 ms
ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.158)  96.707 ms  98.696 ms
 7  ae-23-70.car3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.149.69)  95.490 ms
ae-43-90.car3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.149.197)  93.731 ms  96.204 ms
 8  THE-GO-DADD.car3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.79.168.54)  94.708 ms
 97.039 ms  95.756 ms
 9  208.109.112.253 (208.109.112.253)  95.244 ms  94.401 ms  94.388 ms
10  208.109.112.253 (208.109.112.253)  94.378 ms  93.864 ms  95.172 ms
11  208.109.113.58 (208.109.113.58)  94.387 ms  94.359 ms  94.042 ms
12  * * *

I am very curious to know what prevents Godaddy from withdrawling prefixes
from that specific region and let other working datacenters to handle DNS?
Can that cause issue on other stable nodes during DOS attack?

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:43 AM, <Bill.Ingrum at t-systems.com> wrote:

> Looks like this may be a DDoS attack from Anonymous:
>
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron C. de Bruyn [mailto:aaron at heyaaron.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 1:07 PM
> To: NANOG mailing list
> Subject: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...
>
> For the last ~15 minutes I've been receiving complaints about DNS issues.
>  GoDaddy DNS is apparently b0rked.  I'm also seeing a lot of tweets about
> their hosting and VPS being down.  I'm unable to access the control panel
> for one of my customer accounts.
>
>
> -A
>
>

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