[ale] Godaddy outage

Tue Sep 11 14:30:56 EDT 2012

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:53 -0400, Matt Hessel wrote:
> Well anonymous is claiming they took it down, I don't know if anyone at
> godaddy broke it. :)

NO!

First and foremost...  "Anonymous" has not claimed any action.  One
individual down in Brazil using a handle that has been associated with
Anonymous has claimed to have done this but stated they were acting
independently.  The collective has not claimed this and it remains
unconfirmed.

Second...  GoDaddy itself now claims it was not hackers and not a DoS
attack but a royal screwup in their routers that resulted in corrupted
routing tables.  I'm not totally sure how much credibility I will lend
to that idea but, if true, this is one of the grandest screwups since
Microsoft dicked up their DNS years and years ago with all their public
name servers on a single network segment and then cut them off from the
private master name server with a firewall update.

I'm not sure which is worse.  Being hammered by a collective of
malicious individuals out to get you or displaying a level of technical
incompetence and inability to follow RFCs and BCPs that would put a
technotard to shame!  How did they manage to put all their (DNS) eggs in
one basket so that a single point of failure could have such wide spread
consequences???  Well, I guess they are on good company.  MS has done
it.  AT&T has done it.  Others have done it.  You would think they would
know better but they obviously do not.

Regards,
Mike

> On Sep 11, 2012 1:41 PM, "Scott Plante" <splante at insightsys.com> wrote:
> > Yes, we use GoDaddy for registration but not DNS nor hosting and we were
> > unaffected. Our one client who was affected used them for registration and
> > DNS, but not hosting and they were affected. It was just name resolution
> > though, you could still access their externally hosted site by IP of
> > course. I don't know anyone who was hosting with GoDaddy. You couldn't get
> > to godaddy.com but I didn't know their IP to try that.
> >
> > I imagine someone's in big trouble, if not fired, over that one.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From: *"Brian Stanaland" <brian at stanaland.org>
> > *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> > *Sent: *Monday, September 10, 2012 5:51:13 PM
> > *Subject: *Re: [ale] Godaddy outage
> >
> > 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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