NeuStar confirms ’significant’ abnegation of account advance on Tuesday morning
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World
March 31, 2009 07:23 PM ET
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NeuStar accepted that some of its UltraDNS managed DNS account barter were agape offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a broadcast abnegation of account attack.
“Early this morning, our ecology systems detected wow140 a cogent abnegation of account attack, which afflicted a baby subset of our customers, in some cases for as continued as a few hours,” the Reston, Va. aggregation said in a statement. “While we abide to investigate the cause, the extent, and the continuance of the attack, account was absolutely adequate by 10 a.m. EST.”
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NeuStar is a arch provider of high-availability DNS casework to e-retailers including J.Jill and Diamond.com as able-bodied as high-tech companies such as Oracle and Juniper.
Competitor Dynamic Network Casework blogged about the UltraDNS abeyance beforehand today, asserting that it afflicted Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, advertising.com and Petco.com.
“We saw some funkiness starting over in Europe, and we were seeing that resolution for Amazon.com was failing,” says Dynamic Network Casework CEO Jeremy Hitchcock. “It looks like a appealing ample abeyance that was affecting UltraDNS customers. It started this morning about 8 a.m, and for a two-hour aeon cartage was actual decidedly affected. Now it looks like things accept acclimatized down.”
Hitchcock said his company’s Dynect Platform ecology arrangement saw abundant packet accident on UltraDNS name servers, with as abundant as 50% to 70% of responses getting dropped.
“It’s a appealing cogent accident to accept that affectionate of wide-scale disruption,” Hitchcock added.
NeuStar is a arch provider of Internet basement services. In accession to accouterment its UltraDNS apartment of managed DNS services, NeuStar is the anthology for the .biz and .us domains, and it provides blast amount look-up casework for carriers in North America.
NeuStar has been a baton in the advance to arrange aegis extensions to the DNS basement through an arising accepted dubbed DNSSEC.
However, DNSSEC doesn’t abode the botheration of abnegation of account attacks. Instead, DNSSEC prevents hackers from hijacking Web cartage and redirecting it to artificial sites. Abnegation of account attacks, on the added hand, action if a hacker disab。
