Register.com and other DNS outages?

[edmicman]

Anyone else experiencing DNS or name server problems with domains registered via register.com? At my work, we have a number of domains registered there, and host our own sites. For the past 3 days, we've had massive problems with resolving our domains, or in some cases just resolving our mail server. The only news I seem to find about it are a couple articles via Google News, and a TON of stuff on Twitter:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=register.com

What the heck? Why isn't something like that, a massive DDOS on a major registrar's DNS servers, front page news?

Anyone have any suggestions on how we might have mitigated DNS problems if our DNS goes down? We're looking at switching over to our ISP's DNS servers (AT&T), but should we be hosting our own or something?

[admin]

It's been shop talk all day

http://www.governmentsecurity.org/SecurityHackingNews/Register_com_target_of_DDOS

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/040309_Registercom_Falls_Prey_to_DDoS_Attack

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/638/1051638/register-com-suffers-dos-attack


This isn't their first attack

http://www.secure64.com/news-register-reflective-ddos-dns


DDos attacks are nothing to sneeze about ... these appear to have been malicious tho.


As for mitigating, a tertiary DNS server is a REALLY good idea. Watch for an upcoming announcement about ours soon (http://www.hostpc.com/community/showthread.php?t=3940)