[LINK] wikileaks back

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Sat Dec 4 11:22:58 AEDT 2010


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> Here's a quote from everydns on wikipedia:
>
> > Backup services
> >
> > Because of the danger of a distributed-denial-of-service attack on a
> domain name server, many companies outsource their domain name service
> management to companies such as Akamai. EveryDNS allows webmasters to use
> their servers for geographically distributed DNS service for free. On
> December 2, 2010, EveryDNS dropped WikiLeaks from its entries, citing DDoS
> attacks that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure".[3]
>
> Everydns was supposed to be for these kinds of eventualities.  I don't
> think everydns dropping wikileaks had anything to do with breach of terms.
>  As for the DDoS, are you saying for sure that it wasn't the US government?
>

EveryDNS was aquired by DynDNS some time back, and is very much on it's last
legs.

Currently their entire infrastructure appears to be run on a single host, on
a single IP address. They are defintiely not one of the big players in the
DNS arena.

The Wikipedia entry sounds like it's a quote written about 10 years ago.

  Scott.



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