Register.com suffers DNS problems

Register.com’s nameservers seem to have been the target of a adDoS attack, whatever that is. (A)synchronous? (A)symmetrical? I need to look into that. Whatever caused the outage last night seems to continue to be causing problems this afternoon – either that or there are bad records cascading now. It’s on Twitter too.

Register.com nameserver issues

Using DNSStuff.com to check root level nameserver A-records for register.com (my registrar and nameserver) I got this response: Generated by http://www.DNSstuff.com at 19:28:34 GMT on 02 Apr 2009. How I am searching: Searching for register.com A record at h.root-servers.net [128.63.2.53]: Got referral to j.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.) [took 438 ms]Searching for register.com A record at j.gtld-servers.net.Continue reading “Register.com nameserver issues”