[outages] Godaddy / Premium DNS outage?

Corey Quinn corey at sequestered.net
Tue Sep 11 14:02:08 EDT 2012


Frankly, "we were ddos'd" is a much better sell than "we screwed up our internal systems horribly because we're idiots.". Surprised they went this direction. 

On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:53 AM, "francis.daigneault at bell.ca" <francis.daigneault at bell.ca> wrote:

> It's the easy answer to avoid admitting they where DDOS, when you can't explain something or you don't want to admit something blame it on "corruption"
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> The outages start and stop at the time predicted by the hacker who "admit" it.. how could that happen.. coincidence ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen
> Sent: September-11-12 1:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [outages] Godaddy / Premium DNS outage?
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> On 9/11/12 10:39 AM, Ben Carleton wrote:
>> "corrupted router data tables..." Any ideas on what this refers to? BGP?
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> It's either referring to a BGP/OSPF/IS-IS (insert dynamic routing
> protocol here) bug or a line of corporate-speak BS that sounds technical
> enough to where most people aren't going to ask for details.
> 
> ~Seth
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