[ale] Godaddy outage

Tue Sep 11 20:11:24 EDT 2012

I once worked at a place where there was a guy who, not meaning to cause 
trouble, created subdirectory after subdirectory on a Mac until the OS 
wouldn't function anymore.  We named it the "Copeland Worm" in his honor.

On 9/11/12 7:59 PM, Stephen R. Blevins wrote:
> 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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