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Author Topic: Google DNS broken?  (Read 3694 times)

NEXUS2345

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Re: Google DNS broken?
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2016, 10:47:02 PM »

Dyn is a company that provides DNS services. Dyn DNS is short for Dynamic DNS, and is a seperate thing. This thread is talking about the impact of the attack on Dyn the company.

On that note, El Reg released this info from a Dyn spokesperson, confirming suspicions of involvement of the Mirai botnet.




EDIT
An article from El Reg with the full details has been posted.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/dyn_dns_ddos_explained/?mt=1477082947065
« Last Edit: October 21, 2016, 10:49:59 PM by NEXUS2345 »
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Re: Google DNS broken?
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2016, 11:03:06 AM »

A lot of DDOS problems reported yesterday I think. People were manually changing to Google DNS server 8.8.8.8 to try and avoid the issue apparently.

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Re: Google DNS broken?
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2016, 11:57:19 AM »

OpenDNS is good. Fast and has some nice features. Watch out for the nasty feature of returning false positive responses to queries for an non-existent domain name. That's what they used to do anyway, don't know if they still do. You can turn this non-standards-compliant behaviour off if you create an account and opt out for your IP address range. (It's a long time since I tested the service though.)
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