[Leaplist] EveryDNS under massive DoSS attack

[ray]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/12/03/0052233.shtml

/"EveryDNS, sister company to OpenDNS (which runs the PhishTank 
<http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/05/1636227.shtml?tid=95> anti-phishing 
initiative), has been hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service 
attack 
<http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html>. 
The attack started sometime Friday afternoon and, from all indications, 
was targeting Web sites that used free DNS management services provided 
by EveryDNS. At the height of the DDoS bombardment, EveryDNS was being 
hit with more than 400mbps of traffic at each of its four locations 
around the world. From the article: '"We were collateral damage," 
Ulevitch explained... Because law enforcement is involved, Ulevitch was 
hesitant to release details of the actual target but there are signs 
that some of the targets were "nefarious domains" that have since been 
terminated.'"/ OpenDNS, which makes use of EveryDNS services, was 
affected for a time, until they spread their authoritative DNS more 
broadly. The EveryDNS site <http://everydns.net/> is now reporting that 
the attack is continuing but has been mitigated and is not affecting 
operations.

i wounder if this had anything at all to do with todays lack of bandwidth...

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