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RE: Above.net problems ??
From: Arjan Hulsebos <ahulsebos () corp home nl>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:57:00 +0100
Is there any relationship between this "europeanwide" above.net failure and the huge amount of DNS requests to lockup.zonelabs.com which failed that every ISP (at least in France) seem to have encountered last night ? The zonelabs.com zone is hosted on Above.net NS servers.
The Netherlands were hit as well. We saw a massive flood of queries for lockup.zonelabs.com, too. It performed a nice DoS on our client name servers.... :-( You'd think that an unresponsive nameserver would be flagged dead, and such information be cached. Does anyone know whether that's actually done in Bind 8.3.4? Or perhaps not by default? Cheers, Arjan H Not even a clue-by-four would work with this clown. ________________________________ dr. Arjan Hulsebos Security Engineer Essent Kabelcom, @Home Benelux department 1042 AX Amsterdam Email: arjanh () corp home nl Tel: +31 20 88 55 407 Mob: +31 6 21 548 777
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