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GoDaddy Outage
« on: Sep 10, 2012, 03:02 pm »
It seems as of about 40 minutes ago that all GoDaddy services are currently down after a suspected attack on their DNS services.  This includes any websites hosted by GoDaddy and mail services associated with those sites.  An FYI if you have hosted sites - and more importantly - hosted email, by GoDaddy. 
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Re: GoDaddy Outage
« Reply #1 on: Sep 10, 2012, 04:10 pm »
As I explained on the Cutefuzzy Multimedia Facebook page:

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If your favorite sites are suddenly unreachable, it's because one of the most popular domain registrars (GoDaddy) is experiencing an attack from censorship protestors.
 
 The protestors are attacking the "switchboard" that maps domain names to the computers that host individual websites. They are doing this by sending billions of dead requests all at once to overload the system. (This is called a DDoS attack on the DNS system.) This means that these sites are giving you the web equivalent of a "busy signal" when you try to get through.

EDIT: The system seems to be restored. GoDaddy claims that it was an internal server error but very few network experts believe them.
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