Registrar Joker.com suffers attack

Registrar Joker.com suffers attack
Robert Lemos, 2006-03-27

Single point of failure 2006-03-27
Todd Knarr (1 replies)

Back in the day, there were requirements for nameservers. You had to have at least three of them, and it was highly recommended that you have them on more than one independent networks. The requirements were dropped for purely financial reasons. Customers of Joker.com just discovered why those requi...

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Re: Single point of failure 2006-03-28
Anonymous (1 replies)

And how would that change anything... If they can launch an attack agaisnt one DNS server, they surely can attack 2 or 3 more spread across different networks... So now instead of having 1 network down, you have 3... :-)...

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Re: Re: Single point of failure 2006-03-29
Anonymous

Except that if all the DNS servers are on one network, the attacker only has to launch one DoS against that network. The part of the attack aimed at any one DNS server is aided by the traffic from the attacks on the other nameservers on the same network because all that traffic comes from the same p...

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Registrar Joker.com suffers attack 2006-03-28
Anonymous

Maybe they'll stop hosting spam domains now?...

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