[ale] Godaddy outage

[Lightner, Jeff]

The outage is affecting whois as well.   We only have one domain at GoDaddy (luckily not in use yet) and on checking it yesterday I saw it hang at GoDaddy's whois server.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of David Tomaschik
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:05 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Godaddy outage

For the most part, no, they use name-based virtual hosts.  You could put the IP and hostname in your /etc/hosts, I suppose... then the browser would still send the proper Host: header.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org> wrote:
> I know one group with DNS by GoDaddy but hosting elsewhere has been
> affected. All machines are still reachable via IP address, of course.
> Speaking of which, anyone know if GoDaddy hosted sites can be reached by IP?
>
> --Brian
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Michael H. Warfield
> <mhw at wittsend.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:49 -0400, Scott Plante wrote:
>> > You guys notice the Godaddy DNS outage? I have a customer' s
>> > website down.
>> >
>> > http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions
>> > -of-sites/
>>
>> Been following this...  Their DNS servers are impacted.  Hosting
>> servers indeterminate.  Claims are made that #Anonymous3 down in
>> Brazil is behind this for one reason or another but no one else from
>> Anonymous has stepped up to the plate and claimed responsibility.
>> Looks to be a loose cannon with a wild hair at this point...
>>
>> If you are using them as a registrar but are managing your own DNS
>> then you do not seem to be impacted at this time.
>>
>> If you are using their DNS servers then you are probably impacted
>> whether you are hosting with them or not.
>>
>> If you are using their hosting services but managing your own DNS,
>> please let us know.  I have no data points on this curve.
>>
>> > Scott
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
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