Re: GoDaddy DDoS

[Kim Onnel <karim.adel () gmail com>]

It could be a DoS that used a software vulnerability though.

On 12/1/05, Christopher L. Morrow <christopher.morrow () mci com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
>
> > the source I have seen so far is:
> >
> >
> > http://news.com.com/GoDaddy.com+suffers
> > +outage/2110-7349_3-5977187.html?tag=nefd.hed
>
> stuck through tinyurl for those that care:
> http://tinyurl.com/83hxp
>
> > So I was looking for more details....
>
> apparently it affected web and mail, so I'd assume someone targetted their
> DNS hosts :( bummer for them... if they were a customer we could have
> helped. They seem to be ATT customers, Tim could probably have helped them
> as well... perhaps calling their ISP's for assitance would have made the
> affect less than 65 mins?  and thus less press-worthy :(
>
> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:11 +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anybody have information regarding to size and scale of the
> DDoS
> > > > attack purported to have happened against GoDaddy today?
> > >
> > > nope... but against their:
> > > 1) dns servers?
> > > 2) web servers?
> > > 3) mail servers?
> > > 4) networking equipment?
> > > 5) none of the above?
> >
> >
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