Also 3rd party monitors detected no traffic telltales that would indicate an attack of that magnitude was in progress.
So GD stepped on their own you-know-what and this was due to incompetence rather than incompetence+malice. Not sure I feel that much better about it. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Considering the way the hacker described this on twitter and the length of >> time between his initial taunt and when the sites went down, I suspect more >> to it than a DDOS. It sounds almost like he had his hand on the rhetorical >> "switch" and he turned it off. >> > > Well ends up we were all wrong and it was GoDaddy's fault the whole time. > LOL > > http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/11/godaddy-outage-due-to-corrupt-router-tables-not-hackers/ > > We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal > network events that corrupted router data tables, Wagner said in a company > statement. Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to > restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented > measures to prevent this from occurring again > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352500 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
