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

[virendra rode]

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On 07/11/2012 12:38 PM, Joseph Jackson wrote:
> 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.
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Having scared and been at the front line myself like many of you, a
couple speculation comes to my mind,

1. political
2. possibly someone trying to challenge ultradns ddos protection claim

and other pointers that folks have highlighted.

What I like to understand is, being heavily anycasted did this outage
impact several anycast instances? I for one would be interested to
know ultradns side of the story.

- From what I gather the issue was towards the server(s) end as most
clients were experiencing service degradation.


regards,
/virendra
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> 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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