Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-13 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 13, 2010, at 11:11 PM, David Ulevitch wrote: > Does anyone have any updates they can share on the register.com outage that > has been happening since sometime yesterday? ---

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-13 Thread Brandon Kim
Thanks for the heads up. I just sent an email out to my companies staff to keep an eye on our own customers if they are noticing any issues. Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS? > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:11:

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: > > Thanks for the heads up. I just sent an email out to my companies staff to > keep an eye on our own customers if they > are noticing any issues. > > Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure register.com > has? How doe

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-13 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: as per usual, vzb's website is a poor excuse for a marketting tool (or sales tool, or information gathering tool.. ugh) but, bullet #2 is one option (that register.com I think actually was offered at one point in time...) is 3250/month cheaper than

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-13 Thread esanborn
Has it been confirmed that register.com's outage was due to a DDOS? -Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:01 PM To: Brandon Kim Cc: nanog group Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-13 Thread Brandon Kim
ne of these 3 webmail access points will work for your specific Register.com email address. If you require further assistance please contact customer service at 1888.734.4783. We will update you as soon as we have more information. > Subject: RE: Register.com DNS outages > Date: Sat, 13 Nov

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brandon Kim: > Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure > register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS? You can outsource your DNS, but you better retain a server locally on your network, so that you suffer less from that particular shared toothbrush.

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread esanborn
are a pain - Original Message - From: Florian Weimer To: Brandon Kim Cc: nanog group Sent: Sun Nov 14 13:48:55 2010 Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages * Brandon Kim: > Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure > register.com has? How does one prot

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread Brandon Kim
Isn't using register.com considered outsourcing? In fact, I'd probably feel better not outsourcing to a big shop who is such a big target.a little security through obscurity doesn't hurt =) > Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
colo with two adjacent IP addresses in a /24 owned by the hosting center. That's about as "obscure" as you can get. Then see how your security through obscurity works. :) -- TTFN, patrick >> Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages >> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:03:27 -

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread John Lightfoot
m DNS hosting companies that allow customers to use a second company for their backup DNS? Does register.com allow this? -Original Message- From: Florian Weimer [mailto:f...@deneb.enyo.de] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 1:49 PM To: Brandon Kim Cc: nanog group Subject: Re: Register.co

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-14 Thread ML
im Cc: nanog group Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages * Brandon Kim: Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS? You can outsource your DNS, but you better retain a server locally on your network, so that you suffer less

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-15 Thread esanborn
Possibly, although register.com does not allow this. Maybe other DNS hosting companies do... -Original Message- From: ML [mailto:m...@kenweb.org] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages On 11/14/2010 10:20 PM, John Lightfoot

RE: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-15 Thread Michienne Dixon
-Original Message- From: esanb...@tsd-inc.com [mailto:esanb...@tsd-inc.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:09 AM To: m...@kenweb.org; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Register.com DNS outages Possibly, although register.com does not allow this. Maybe other DNS hosting companies do

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-15 Thread ML
On 11/15/2010 5:37 PM, Michienne Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: esanb...@tsd-inc.com [mailto:esanb...@tsd-inc.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:09 AM To: m...@kenweb.org; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Register.com DNS outages Possibly, although register.com does not allow

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-15 Thread ML
On 11/13/2010 11:11 AM, David Ulevitch wrote: Good morning, Does anyone have any updates they can share on the register.com outage that has been happening since sometime yesterday? They don't seem to have any sort of explanation or status page (aside from the note on their homepage). Is there

Re: Register.com DNS outages

2010-11-16 Thread Florian Weimer
> Anyone else get spammed from someone at Afilias? Yes, I think you were Cc:ed on the message sent to me. I find it odd that this type of advertising works. I would expect actual victims to confuse it with extortion. ("I have heard that you were under attack and suffered an outage. For a small