Network Solutions Hit With DDoS 91
New submitter Landy DeField was the first of many of write in about Network Solutions' website and DNS outage: "If your website does not load this morning you need to ask yourself do we use Network Solutions? Because all of their servers are all currently down. You can confirm this by visiting this site."
The only solid information from Network Solutions is a post on their Facebook page: "Network Solutions is experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack that is impacting our customers as well as the Network Solutions site. Our technology team is working to mitigate the situation. Please check back for updates." There have been several reports that the outage is causing hosted DNS to fail, leading to a number of unresolvable websites.
I Do Not Use DNS (for my fav sites) (Score:0, Interesting)
I get to them faster (local off TRUE SSD DDR2 Gigabyte IRAM 4gb PCIExpress ramdisk card speed of access/seek sub ms into low ns), & get past DNS failures, like this one, via:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 [start64.com]
My top 20 sites favorites where I spend 95%++ or better of my time are in mine @ the topmost 20 entries - this equals or exceeds DNS indexing up to ~2-3 million++ record entries... I also get local seek/read & faster once cached into memory (either by local dns caching client services or with large hosts files, the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem - keeps it ALL in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode with the TCP/IP stack!). I checked my browser histories, firewall logs (software & router), etc., to determine them (knew them anyhow, I am ME, right? Right!).
Sub ~4% of the time? I use DNS, but specialized secured filtered ones vs. malware/spam/phishing etc. like OpenDNS, Comodo DNS, ScrubIT DNS, & others like them. Rare. Part of why I use news aggregator sites. They help not having to hop all over the place.
* Not only does it do more than AdBlock ('souled-out' 2 Google) & Ghostery (advertiser owned - to me, that's a fox guarding a henhouse) in speeding you up, AND blocking ads (plus known maliciously coded sites or malware serving servers etc.), but it makes you more RELIABLE, this way in cases like this also.
APK
P.S.=> Other major problems in DNS are that it's 99% unpatched out there vs. the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw, worst of all @ the ISP level, but also it gets "taken advantage of" in its very nature by FastFlux &/or Dynamic DNS utilizing bots, like mad, recycling-reusing host-domain names of malware spewing sites like mad (hard to kill, can live again/reincarnate - IP addressed malware is easy to kill by comparison, being stationary/static, vs. dynamic)...
... apk
DNS dependent guys do - see article. (Score:0, Interesting)
I don't & bypass DNS completely as shown here http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 [slashdot.org] also getting around fastflux & dynamic dns using botnets/malwares etc. too (since they're blocked in my custom hosts file too: "2-for-the-price-of-1" bonus!), & I do name resolution faster, locally (from a True SSD no less), in kernelmode too cached in RAM & the native TCP/IP resolver driver in tcpip.sys does the rest, also in kernelmode (fastest there is): Who's the moron?
* :)
APK
P.S.=> Answer to that last question = Not I... lol!
... apk