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DNS Flood
by Jamie D. 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

Are there any other ISP's who are experiencing DNS floods, specifically I am looking for traffic destined for (or coming from) the following IPs >>> 199.108.32.203 >>> 216.15.178.201 >>> 129.180.11.17 >>> 216.41.23.68 >>> 208.235.124.20 >>> 203.251.77.1 It appears someone is running a script that is using these nameservers, as well as the name servers of other educational facilities, to do a lookup on mulitple servers in the amplitude of 3-4 a second. This activity has been happening for the past 3 weeks, we have null routed this traffic on our backbone, but it still shows up in Cache flow. This traffic actually saturated our customer's pipe as well as increased the load on our backbone router. If anyone has seen anything at all like that, (specifically people from UU.net or AT&T Worldnet) please lets band together and find the person doing this. Thanks Jamie D. | noc(a)cerf.net AT&T CERFnet| Network Analyst 1-888-237-3638 opt 2 opt 2

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Re: DNS Flood
by prue＠ISI.EDU 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

Jamie, Yep. I'm seeing the same list of suspects hitting various destinations. I have multiple backbone connections and the traffic from these nodes is comming from GTEI, IBN, and over MAE-LA. I can't tell if the source addresses are spoofed. Walt

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POWER: Chicago, IL power problems
by Sean Donelan 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

Commonwealth Edison has lost several large transformers feeding the the "West Loop" in Chicago. Commonwealth Edison reports the outage is in the Jefferson substation at 828 S. Jefferson St. starting around 10am CDT. There are some major ISP/Telco facilties near that area. At the moment, the ones I was able to reach report they are up on backup power. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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about nonaccess to com, net, org zone files from f.root-servers.net
by Paul A Vixie 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

if you're having trouble getting these files from nsi (who is supposed to be providing them during the nonaccess experiment) please let me know in e-mail, with all details including who you talked to at nsi, what they said, and what they did (if anything).

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Not sure if this is on topic but any help would be appreciated
by Larry Birch 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

I am trying to register a domain in the uk. I have been to the UK Domain Registration page and just have one question that I could not get answered. What is a gTLD domain and do I need one? Responses off list are fine. mailto:lbirch@wans.net

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was in-addr.arpa question, now BBN
by Craig Partridge 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

In message <01JEMIE2WJS691XASM(a)ACES.COM>, Ehud Gavron writes: > BBN still thinks they invented tcp/ip. And we have a pretty good claim. If you go back and look at the history of networking in the 1970s, BBN was a very active participant -- probably more active than any other corporation. And BBNers figure prominently on early drafts of many of the major protocols we know today, including TELNET, FTP, email, the New ARPAnet routing protocol (the protocol that OSPF and IS-IS are based on) and EGP (predecessor to BGP). We've occasionally tooted the horn a bit too strongly (there's a famous report c. 1980 that some Internet pioneers periodically bring up :-)) but we're certainly entitled to toot it. Thanks! Craig Partridge Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies (part of GTE) PS: BBN Technologies does research. What was BBN Planet is now GTE Internetworking. So sending me day-to-day operational questions is generally a waste of time. (I'm on this list to track issues in future operations...)

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Software Started MCI Outage
by Henry R. Linneweh 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere on the frame relay network when the device began to "experience congestion" and the initial outage began. Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade occurred or what the upgrade was for. Henry

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OUTAGE: AT&T Local Service (TCG) in Needham, MA
by Sean Donelan 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

TCG/ATT Local Service took out their local fiber ring in Needham, MA around 1pm EDT. Apparently they made a change to the STS-1 programming, and something went wrong. Techs are now being dispatched to various points around the fiber ring to try to resolve the problem. Notice, I don't just pick on MCI/Worldcom. Last word we had from our "one-to-one" MCI/Worldcom contacts is they hope to have the frame-relay problem fixed by Friday or Monday at the latest. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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MCI-Worldcom in the news
by Patrick Greenwell 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Well, someone picked the outage story up(sort of...) http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnew… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell "This is our time. It will not come again." \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

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WEATHER: tornado and power outages in salt lake city utah
by Sean Donelan 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

There was a tornado in Salt Lake City Utah which caused a lot of damage in the downtown area and power outages throughout the area. Several local ISPs in the area seem to be down. One ISP I was able to reach is on backup power. Traceroutes seem to reach the POPs of backbone providers, so they seem to be up. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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