news.ycombinator.com• Aug 9, 2010• 1 min read
DNS Made Easy's response to the DDOS attackDear DNS Made Easy Client,On August 07, 2010 DNS Made Easy was the target of a large multi Gb/s attack against all of our name servers. The attack started at 8:00 UTC and was fully mitigated by 14:00 UTC. During this time period there were regional outages from some or all of our name servers. Regional outages means that certain regions of the world were not able to resolve your DNS and other regions of the world were resolving normally. When all name servers were not reachable a DNS query would have been lost, when some name servers were not reachable then DNS performance would have been slower than normal but still operational.The regional downtime was in very small periods but it still did affect the overall resolution for all of our client's DNS. It is for this reason that we are explaining the situation in full to all of our clients now.1) How long were the DNS outages? In some regions there were no issues, in other regions outages lasted a few minutes, while in other regions ther