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Forums › 2degrees (including Slingshot, Orcon, Flip, Stuff Fibre, MyRepublic, 2talk and Vocus) › Orcon DNS under DDOS Attack
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#159722 10-Dec-2014 17:30
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Title says it all, patchy website loading etc, general instability. Inbound and outbound Genius voice can be affected.

Team is working on it but it is both Dynamic and Distributed so mitigation is a challenge. 




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  #1195095 10-Dec-2014 17:59
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Tried using ns1.spark.co.nz instead, got: REFUSED

 

Fair enough, I suppose.

 



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  #1195096 10-Dec-2014 18:00
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Engineers have blocked the attack and DNS resolver service is restored.

 

 

 

Customers with affected Genius service may have to reboot their routers to restore service.




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  #1195097 10-Dec-2014 18:01
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Thanks for the update




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  #1195184 10-Dec-2014 20:21
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rfdawn: Tried using ns1.spark.co.nz instead, got: REFUSED Fair enough, I suppose.


Spark and some other's some years back, moved to refuse anything not under their own AS from having established sessions via DNS.

Usually something like Google, OpenDNS etc. you test with - so to work around to verify your equipment (CPE), ISP, just a specific site or something like MTU and SSL sites not loading.

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  #1195203 10-Dec-2014 20:41
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That explains that then :)

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  #1195313 10-Dec-2014 22:40
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Would this be the reason why all my old emails are downloading again in outlook? All 2194 of them :(

 
 
 
 

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  #1195334 10-Dec-2014 23:09
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I only have 1,150 old emails downloading :-(

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  #1195363 11-Dec-2014 05:32
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I just changed the DNS to 8.8.8.8 and all worked fine.

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  #1195420 11-Dec-2014 09:43
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Yes.. al the emails again was.. annoying .. :-P




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