[outages] Dyn outage continuing

[David Miller]

What are you basing your claims on?

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages
<outages at outages.org> wrote:
> It is a shame in that PagerDuty is affected.
>
> However, Dyn is far, far better positioned to withstand attacks than a
> company like PagerDuty could possibly be on their own. So I think PagerDuty
> did the right thing in using Dyn.
>
> Remember, Twitter, Pingdom, github, and lots of other people use Dyn. And
> this is the first major outage I have heard of their service.

Everyone has issues.  Here is one:

http://hub.dyn.com/dyn-status/update-managed-dns-issue-july-6-2015

> Let’s all be clear that Dyn has to be in the top 10 DNS infrastructures on
> the planet. Possibly the largest that sells DNS as a service. This is a
> serious attack, and the entire community should help track this miscreant
> down, then crush them like a bug.

Let's actually be clear...

Do you have some inside information the rest of us are not privy to?  Sources?

How did you come to your earlier statement re: this being a ransom attack?

Do you have detailed information describing the top 10 DNS
infrastructures on the planet, such that you could make any sort of
comparison of infrastructure or size?  I'll grant you Akamai, how
about the other 9?

What do you know about this attack, such that you can make claims that
this is "serious" or that there is a single miscreant that can be
tracked down or that the community can assist in any way?

Without actual details this looks to be wild conjecture and doesn't
provide any helpful direction.

-DMM
[ I work for DNS Made Easy ]