Bummer times two. How widely distributed is the attack, Scott?
----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Is DNSStuff Down?
I can seem to reach www.dnsstuff.com or backup.dnsstuff.com. Are you current having issues?
It was down, but should be back up soon.
The main server is struggling right now. It's still under a DDoS attack, but is handling that pretty well. But the data partition was destroyed by good 'ole chkdsk -- Windows had troubles reading one (or perhaps several) unnecessary files, and said to run chkdsk. On the next reboot (a few days ago), chkdsk was run, and destroyed the entire partition (with log files, cached WHOIS entries, etc.). Most of the important data has been recovered, but while the rest is being recovered (which could take a week or two), it's running off of just the primary partition, which is far from optimal. And, it's going to be nearly impossible to restore the data partition to the way it was, which may cause some odd behavior.
The backup, meanwhile, just isn't prepared for the DDoS attack -- so when the switchover occurred, it couldn't handle the load.
-Scott
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