On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
the source I have seen so far is:
http://news.com.com/GoDaddy.com+suffers +outage/2110-7349_3-5977187.html?tag=nefd.hed
stuck through tinyurl for those that care: http://tinyurl.com/83hxp
So I was looking for more details....
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 :(
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:11 +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
Does anybody have information regarding to size and scale of the DDoS attack purported to have happened against GoDaddy today?
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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