[PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
I realized this afternoon that I've not checked Brian Krebs' blog for a few days so I tried to access www.krebsonsecurity.com. This pointed to localhost, not his web site. A web search revealed that yesterday his site suffered a massive DDoS attack, apparently from a IOT botnet. But, his

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread John Meissen
rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said: >I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these results > and offer ideas how I might once again reach his web site. Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP address. Not much you can do until that changes.

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ali Corbin wrote: > His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack) > unloaded him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find > caches of the site. Ali, I didn't search that far since I'm not well educated on DNS. I also did not run dig

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Smith, Cathy
I'm not surprised. I was able to get to his site this morning, but not this afternoon. --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the  U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax:       509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Ali Corbin
His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack) unloaded him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find caches of the site. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ronald Chmara wrote: > https://web.archive.org/web/20160922124922/http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is > the last internet archive has, from 2016/09/22 (the comments section on > the article go to 09/21), so it's up to the last 24 hours or so. Thanks. That's a good URL to know.

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, John Meissen wrote: > Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP address. Not > much you can do until that changes. John, I suspected as much. Could this be a result of the DDoS attack? Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Ronald Chmara
https://web.archive.org/web/20160922124922/http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is the last internet archive has, from 2016/09/22 (the comments section on the article go to 09/21), so it's up to the last 24 hours or so. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On