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I suspect DNS or routing issues.
UPDATE I can't definitively say that it's not down; just the services we use. It sounds like you have more services with them than we do, so maybe portions of their system are down.
[edited by: cmarshall at 6:11 pm (utc) on Mar. 11, 2007]
See my update above.
A week or so, ago, someone else posted that it had been hacked, but I think a gateway server somewhere was nailed.
Anyone care to back that claim up?
I must have had some bad shellfish or something.
I could swear that this thread was a Featured Home Page Discussion yesterday.
Did its lack of empirical standing cause it to fall from grace?
The Go Daddy Group Inc has been hit by a massive distributed denial of service attack that took down many of its customers' websites and other services for several hours.The company, the largest registrar of internet domain names and one of the largest web hosting providers, said it was the subject of "large-scale, sophisticated attacks" that lasted four to five hours.
AdvertisementServices hosted at one of the company's data centers suffered sluggish or zero response times as a result. Its other data centers were unaffected.
> Did its lack of empirical standing cause it to fall from grace?
ya, it was flat out wrong info on /. The entire thread over there was wrong about the time switch. it had nothing to do with it.
GoDaddy chief information security officer Neil Warner told us that the attack was a SYN flood that targeted a particular under-protected service.
Not good, not good at all!
ya, good luck with that
my sites that are with godaddy (and a mail server) were a little slow yesterday as well
seems fine now
I'm going to call them later and ask for a credit!
Why?
Nothing GoDaddy did wrong here.
That would be like calling the power company asking for a credit because Katrina knocked out your lights for 2 weeks,
"large-scale, sophisticated attacks"
the attack was a SYN flood that targeted a particular under-protected service
If the problem was the latter rather than the former, then GoDaddy should take some blame for running an insecure service which is vulnerable to something as simplistic as a SYN flood.
I ask, without antagonism, what did GoDaddy do to you that you feel the company should no longer exist? (In other words, thinking that punishments should fit crimes, what is their sin?)
So instead of blocking one domain they blocked them all because of greed.
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[edited by: trillianjedi at 8:08 pm (utc) on Mar. 12, 2007]
[edit reason] See sticky... [/edit]
were you spamming?
Begs a question -- my hosted sites have gross transfer caps -- what happens if this "attack" pushes me over my limit? -- am I responsible for the cost? Another thing, it's really easy for GD to say it's someone else rather than an internal issue, but then they do need to own up to it -- If I surpass my limit later this month (it certainly won't happen tomorrow), will they let it pass or hit me up for it?
