[ale] Godaddy outage

Tue Sep 11 14:53:16 EDT 2012

That reminds me of a Wizard of Id comic I saw once.   The King asked why it is they always plead "not guilty" when caught even though they are quick to claim they did it when it occurs.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael H. Warfield
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:31 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Cc: mhw at wittsend.com
Subject: Re: [ale] Godaddy outage

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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