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BigGuy

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#129419 15-Sep-2013 10:48

Is it just me or are the Orcon DNS servers (121.98.0.1, 121.98.0.2) offline at the moment?
I've change to 8.8.8.8 and everything is working fine again.

Cheers

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#895798 15-Sep-2013 10:53

yeah back up now ....

one side problem i had tho is i lost SIP!.....

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FireEngine

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#895804 15-Sep-2013 11:03

Our systems team are aware of it, looks like a dos attack is going on.

Regards FireEngine

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#895806 15-Sep-2013 11:04

Back up for me.

Screeb

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#895807 15-Sep-2013 11:06

Yeah, I had the same problem (and solution). I noticed the same thing not long ago as well. How do both the primary and secondary servers die at the same time? That's pretty poor design if that happens... Maybe I'll just put Google's as the secondary.

hyperman

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#895808 15-Sep-2013 11:06

FireEngine: Our systems team are aware of it, looks like a dos attack is going on.

Thanks for the info FireEngine

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Screeb

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#895809 15-Sep-2013 11:10

Hmm, still patchy.

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ptinson

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#895826 15-Sep-2013 12:33

DNS queries may be a bit slower we have failed auckland to wellington for the moment while we stop this attack.

Paul

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#895874 15-Sep-2013 14:04

Who has Orcon annoyed lately for this to occur?

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ptinson

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#895879 15-Sep-2013 14:22

michaelmurfy: Who has Orcon annoyed lately for this to occur?

Who knows, it comes and goes in waves.
The last one was a lot of addresses from china, this one isnt...

One thing is sure, DNS traffic has picked up significantly in the past 3 weeks.

Paul

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FireEngine

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#895880 15-Sep-2013 14:23

michaelmurfy: Who has Orcon annoyed lately for this to occur?

Probably the same people as Emirates Team NZ, the issue started around the same time as Race 8 went to custard :-)

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#895881 15-Sep-2013 14:24

BigGuy: Is it just me or are the Orcon DNS servers (121.98.0.1, 121.98.0.2) offline at the moment?
I've change to 8.8.8.8 and everything is working fine again.

Cheers

Don't forget to change back, otherwise your Youtube, Akamai content will come from strange places.

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ptinson

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#895883 15-Sep-2013 14:26

Screeb: Yeah, I had the same problem (and solution). I noticed the same thing not long ago as well. How do both the primary and secondary servers die at the same time? That's pretty poor design if that happens... Maybe I'll just put Google's as the secondary.

They get attacked at the same time?

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Screeb

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#895885 15-Sep-2013 14:30

ptinson:
Screeb: Yeah, I had the same problem (and solution). I noticed the same thing not long ago as well. How do both the primary and secondary servers die at the same time? That's pretty poor design if that happens... Maybe I'll just put Google's as the secondary.

They get attacked at the same time?

That's fair enough to some extent - I hadn't considered an attack at the time. However, one would think such a vital part of the service would be better protected against DoS attacks.

ptinson

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#895890 15-Sep-2013 14:48

Screeb:
ptinson:
Screeb: Yeah, I had the same problem (and solution). I noticed the same thing not long ago as well. How do both the primary and secondary servers die at the same time? That's pretty poor design if that happens... Maybe I'll just put Google's as the secondary.

They get attacked at the same time?

That's fair enough to some extent - I hadn't considered an attack at the time. However, one would think such a vital part of the service would be better protected against DoS attacks.

We do what we can with the resources we have.

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#895956 15-Sep-2013 17:05

Orcon DNS outages kill hard disks.

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