not much to do if there were a coordinated state sponsored attack on the data infrastructure it would be outside the scope of any regional isp resource to even begin to mitigate it. Im of the belief that whatever was in store took place during the dyn attack... look!! squirrel!! would be interesting to find opendns had been infiltrated for example, considering how many major organizations have plan B'd it
i personally hope that the capacity to livestream goes down, take twitter and facebook live down, nobody can stream their shennanigans for attention and they go home On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw some speculation that the attack on Dyn was practice for some kind > of Russian cyberattack to disrupt the Internet on election day. > > > > I’m not saying I buy this theory, but does anyone have any special > precautions we should be taking just in case? Cancel all leaves, all hands > on deck? > > > > If they do another attack like the one on Dyn, the only thing I can think > of is be prepared to make our nameservers authoritative for Facebook and > Netflix, and most customers won’t notice there’s a problem. Just kidding > (mostly) about that, but during the attack on Dyn, I suspect OpenDNS users > were spared because of their “last known good” feature, which uses cached > DNS records after the TTL expires if the authoritative servers are > unreachable. > > > > I see some major sites still have their TTL set extremely low. > > > > twitter.com – 60 seconds > > google.com – 60 seconds > > amazon.com – 60 seconds > > facebook.com – 120 seconds > > foxnews.com- 5 minutes > > netflix.com – 30 minutes (yay!) > > cnn.com – 1 day > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
