[ale] Godaddy outage

[Cameron Kilgore]

I keep hearing (unconfirmed) that Anonymous took them down.

Back in the day, I was told Anonymous wasn't someone's personal army. Kids
these days...

--Cameron <http://ghostfreeman.net>


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:12 AM, 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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