[Outages-discussion] [outages] NeuStar UltraDNS ? ** Why DDOS Neustar?

[Joseph Jackson]

I always wonder what the motivation is behind doing a DDoS attack against someone like Neustar.  What would be the gain on taking them down?  I guess apart from corporate warfare but I find that to be kind of unlikely.



From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Kuzmowycz, George
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:14 PM
To: 'frnkblk at iname.com'; 'Randy Johnson'; outages at outages.org
Subject: Re: [outages] NeuStar UltraDNS ?

UltraDNS just sent an e-mail to customers that they are under a DDoS that took down their Hong Kong node.

"We are proactively defending the attack on our network and working with our upstream telecommunications providers to further mitigate the traffic originating from their networks."

From: outages-bounces at outages.org<mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org> [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:48 PM
To: 'Randy Johnson'; outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>
Subject: Re: [outages] NeuStar UltraDNS ?

Is the issue with DNS, accessing their site, or something else?  Can you share some more details?

Frank

From: outages-bounces at outages.org<mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org> [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Randy Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:36 PM
To: outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>
Subject: [outages] NeuStar UltraDNS ?

Anyone using Ultra DNS ?
Are you seeing issues ?

>From our side, Ultra appears to be up/down/up since about 0900 PDT today.

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