PeterQ: Still cant understand why it brought down the mobile network as well, couldn't make any phone calls

PaulZA: Something doesn't add up.
 
an ADSL, or VDSL modem doesn't have the capability to take down a whole network, obviously Spark know something, they aren't letting up.
If that was the case, why don't they just shut off their internet access, till someone sends a tech over, to have it resolved.

Something about their story doesn't add up.
I recon the GCSB, and FBI would need to look into this, as if this had to happen in any other country, the results would be catastrophic.

old3eyes:

TimA:

old3eyes: I wonder if this "malware" attack is why since 10.00am I've received about 70  returned emails saying can't be delivered to intended  receipt.   Had a look at some of them and they appear random email addresses  to US URLs.

Your PC just has malware or a virus.

Ran both NOD 32 and Megabytes.  Nothing found..   I find also now I Can't send emails from my Orcon account using port 587 to mail.orcon.net.nz. .  Get a 451 temporary error.  Pleaze try later..

mcraenz: I wonder if this is a paid attack by a competitor who wants to discredit Spark at what might be seen as a critical time for them as they rebrand/relaunch.

First connect to the router over telnet
telnet <ip addr>
Username is "Administrator" (case sensitive without quotes)
Password is blank (just press enter key at the password prompt)
The enter the following commands
The last command is only if you want the change permanent, if you dont use it, the next time you reboot the router, it will use the default dns servers dished out by Spark

VDSL Routers

dns server forward dnsset flush
dns server forward dnsset add set=0 dns=202.37.245.17 metric=0 intf=PPPoE
dns server forward dnsset add set=0 dns=202.37.245.20 metric=0 intf=PPPoE
dns server forward dnsset list
saveall

Peppery:

old3eyes:

TimA:

old3eyes: I wonder if this "malware" attack is why since 10.00am I've received about 70  returned emails saying can't be delivered to intended  receipt.   Had a look at some of them and they appear random email addresses  to US URLs.

Your PC just has malware or a virus.

Ran both NOD 32 and Megabytes.  Nothing found..   I find also now I Can't send emails from my Orcon account using port 587 to mail.orcon.net.nz. .  Get a 451 temporary error.  Pleaze try later..

Someone is just sending fake SMTP headers with your email address. Not uncommon

KiwiNZ: this will spawn a thousand conspiracy theories 

quickymart: One outage and you're going?

Bobdn: I may be going out on a limb here, but do you do a lot of rage quitting when playing Call of Duty?

Mauricio Freitas, who administrates the Geekzone website, said it was possible for just a few affected users to impact a larger segment of the network. It appeared Spark's DNS was on the end of an amplification attack, he said.

khull:

quickymart: One outage and you're going?

Bobdn: I may be going out on a limb here, but do you do a lot of rage quitting when playing Call of Duty?

Not quite as straight forward - Kindly refrain from pulling any cynical remarks/accusations unless you have some background with my relationship with Spark. I have had issues in the past which also included being out of a connection for 4 days (not a biggie as I had mobile data) and then again when upgrading to VSDL and on top of them billing issues that were unrelated to the switchover.