A distributed denial of service attack knocked NeuStar's UltraDNS managed DNS service offline for several hours on Tuesday. NeuStar runs high-availability DNS services for customers such as online retailers and IT giants, including Oracle and Juniper. In a statement, NeuStar told Networkworld that the attack affected only a …

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Wednesday 1st April 2009 16:11 GMT Anonymous Coward

Didn't seem to effect the UK

We use UltraDNS in the UK and it had absolutely no impact on any of the 20 or so domains that we host with them.

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Wednesday 1st April 2009 22:25 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hmmpf

When the sales guy called me last year he assured me a DDOS attack wouldn't have and effect on them.

Never trust salesmen.

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Wednesday 1st April 2009 23:09 GMT Andrew McLachlan

Yep totally down for entire DDOS period

All back now, I would like to see the exact details of vuln that took them down. But still if I had secondary dns I would not have had a problem.

My bad....

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Thursday 2nd April 2009 09:32 GMT foo_bar_baz

@Andrew

The vuln is IPv4.

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Thursday 2nd April 2009 11:03 GMT John Hughes

And what happened to register.com?

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-April/009115.html

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Friday 3rd April 2009 09:17 GMT Anonymous Coward

Yeah, what about Register.com?

Still no reporting about the DDoS attack on Register.com? Poor.

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Monday 6th April 2009 19:20 GMT Anonymous Coward

redundant DNS server ..

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/040309_Registercom_Falls_Prey_to_DDoS_Attack

"a redundant DNS server is about $10 or $15 per domain per year"

I don't follow the logic. Rent space in a server farm and put in your own box for about £100 per year ..

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