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Namecheap FreeDNS under DDoS attack.

Posted by Den S. on 15th November 2010 @ 2:29 am
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DDoS Attack: Freedns servers affected

Dear Customers,

Unfortunately, our Freedns servers have been under DDoS attack for some time now. Our Technical Staff are doing their best to eliminate the issue in the shortest terms.

There is no ETA at this moment, unfortunately, but we will be constantly updating you.

Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused, and thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

Namecheap Support Team.

UPDATE @ 3 a.m.

The DDoS attack is still ongoing. Unfortunately, we have not got any ETA yet. We do appreciate your patience.

http://status.namecheap.com/?p=2273

Probably can't blame anonymous/4chan for this one, they seem to be busy getting bent over by tumblr. tonight in a Ddos gone bad

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Originally Posted by Nasty (Post 17699237)

Probably can't blame anonymous/4chan for this one, they seem to be busy getting bent over by tumblr. tonight in a Ddos gone bad

I think it also went down very briefly early yesterday morning (15 - 30 m). I guess that might have been someone's "practice run".

maybe namecheap confiscated someones domain name...who wasnt too happy about that.

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Originally Posted by madawgz (Post 17699344)

maybe namecheap confiscated someones domain name...who wasnt too happy about that.

Could very well be. No big deal though I guess. Plenty of ways to set up secondary nameservers to prevent downtime.

4chan is made by some kid?!?

Looks like the attackers might also be attempting some hacking...

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Namecheap Status
Posted by Nika P. on 15th November 2010 @ 1:38 pm
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Server 2 issue

We regret to inform you that there was an attempt to deface our server 2. Our technicians managed to stop the hacker attack. Server2 has been shut down for security checks. We will keep you updated.

We strongly apologize for the inconveniences caused by the issue and thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

Namecheap hosting support team.

If you have services there you may want to monitor them carefully and make sure you have backups. :2 cents:

wtf... name.com is down too but they say it's scheduled maintenance... and I just bought a fucking domain literally 30 seconds before this happened

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Originally Posted by CYF (Post 17700809)

Some sort of coordinated attack must be occurring.

Namecheap FreeDNS has reportedly finally started to come back up:

http://kb9.org/internet/free-dns-ser...medium=twitter

However another provider Sitelutions is reportedly having issues:

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23names...?q=sitelutions

DNSMadeEasy was attacked not long ago too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11...s_on_dns_firm/

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DNS provider decked by DDoS dastards

DNS provider sitelutions was floored by a particularly severe denial of service on Tuesday.

The Virginia-based internet services firm confirmed its site was offline as the result of a "multi-gigabit" denial of service attack via an update to its Twitter feed.

"Websites and data still safe, though there are still occasional DNS lookup issues that we are working on due to the massive attack," it said.

sitelutions was able to restore its website by Tuesday afternoon following an outage of around six hours earlier in the day.

The motives for the attack, much less its perpetrators, remain unclear.

Typically such attacks are launched from botnets of compromised machines that are normally rented for the purpose by someone with a grudge against a targeted organisation, or just as often, a beef with one of their clients.

Attacks tend to subside after a short period unless the hacker is in the grip of rage, or is using the attack to extort money from a targeted site; this being a tactic that was fairly common a few years ago but has died off more recently in favour of more subtle scams.

Various DDoS mitigation tools can be applied to filter off and discard junk traffic, but these tend to take some time to properly install and configure. ®