[ale] Godaddy outage

Tue Sep 11 19:59:15 EDT 2012

Early in my IT career (early 1980's), I learned that "No malevolent 
cracker, no matter how malicious, can even begin to do the damage an 
authorized and well-meaning but incompetent user can do."

QED

Stephen R. Blevins
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com

On 09/11/2012 02:30 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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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