Wow. Anonymous' security officer has reportedly taken dowm GoDaddy's DNS servers, taking down GoDaddy-hosted or registered sited with it. And that's a lot of sites. Not sure if it's related to Google's short dissappearance and random other network issues I've experienced during the afternoon, but likely unrelated as Google has it's own DNS servers, and outgoing connectivity was generally impacted (which is more like a local network issue than a spoofed DNS, assuming it was a spoof attack, issue).
Any more details on the attack used?
/via +Arun Shroff
GoDaddy’s DNS Servers Go Down, Along With Thousands of Sites
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar and one of the biggest web hosts, is experiencing major downtime. The main GoDaddy.com domain is unreachable and websites hosted by GoDaddy are also
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Googles DNS servers are causing huge issues for me and this is not the first time.
Oh, things go from bad to worse for GoDaddy.
Hm. Looks like GoDaddy might have caused their own problems, not a hacker: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-godaddy-web-outage.html
… which is too bad, I was looking forward to an analysis of the attack used. If anything, a sign that it might be time to change host.
+Marc Blackwell I don't follow the jump in the article either. Yes there are other reasons for leaving GoDaddy, but that's not what the article is about – then again, it is Mashable, so it isn't about good journalism.
Maybe if your site is hosted by or registered with GoDaddy? But there are probably other good reasons to stay off GoDaddy than an attack by Anonymous. Stay calm, be rational.
How to build redundant sites when the DNS itself is targeted? Apart from having different domains registered at different registrars.
At the end of the article they suggest getting a new web hosting service? Why would I want to do that?
So far every site is working here. Hurray for DNS Caching.