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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>More here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.networksolutions.com/blog/2012/08/network-traffic-spikes-today/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.networksolutions.com/blog/2012/08/network-traffic-spikes-today/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> outages-bounces@outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Howard<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 11, 2012 1:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> nevin@enginehosting.com<br><b>Cc:</b> outages@outages.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] Network Tools Name Servers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Rumor is they got hit by a DDoS yesterday that took some of their servers off the air for a while.<br><br>Symptoms today seem to match that - ns1 and ns2 at least are both responding, but only occasionally and very slowly when they do.<br><br> Scott.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, <<a href="mailto:nevin@enginehosting.com" target="_blank">nevin@enginehosting.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:40pm, "Andres Herrera" <<a href="mailto:aher85@gmail.com">aher85@gmail.com</a>> said:<br><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Outages mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Outages@outages.org">Outages@outages.org</a><br>> <a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> Since 11 AM CST some of our sites that use <a href="http://ns1.worldnic.com" target="_blank">ns1.worldnic.com</a> [205.178.190.1]<br>> and <a href="http://ns2.worldnic.com" target="_blank">ns2.worldnic.com</a> [206.188.198.1] as name servers are timing out. Anyone<br>> can confirm this?<br>><br>> -Andres<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Have a client seeing the same thing with:<br><br> <a href="http://NS3.WORLDNIC.COM" target="_blank">NS3.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 205.178.190.2<br> <a href="http://NS4.WORLDNIC.COM" target="_blank">NS4.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 206.188.198.2<br><br>;; global options: +cmd<br>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<br><br>As of 1:06pm (central time)<br><br>-- Nevin Lyne<br>-- Founder / Director of Technology<br>-- Gippy's Internet Solutions, LLC. / EngineHosting.com<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Outages mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Outages@outages.org">Outages@outages.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>