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That was exactly my thought. This may be unrelated, or it may be a test run. But a large scale attack on Election Day that crippled communications would stir up
by rybosome 10y ago
That was exactly my thought. This may be unrelated, or it may be a test run. But a large scale attack on Election Day that crippled communications would stir up unrest for a variety of reasons. Although I think that's highly unlikely to change the outcome, unrest after such a contentious election is not good.
- Shank 10y agoIf this is a test run, this is an amazing early warning for Twitter and the like to immediately start working on contingency plans for election day.
- rybosome 10y agoWhat can they do? It's not Twitter themselves being DDOS'd, it's a DNS provider. This propagates up the chain to impact both a Tier 1 network and cloud providers, which hits tons of stuff on top of that.
- Shank 10y agoHave a failover DNS provider. Amazon uses Dyn, but also has UltraDNS as a backup, and it's obviously still up. Twitter vs Amazon: host -t ns twitter.com: ns3.p34.dynect.net, ns4.p34.dynect.net, ns1.p34.dynect.net, ns2.p34.dynect.net. host -t ns amazon.com: ns3.p31.dynect.net, ns4.p31.dynect.net, ns2.p31.dynect.net, pdns6.ultradns.co.uk, pdns1.ultradns.net, ns1.p31.dynect.net.
- rtrox 10y agoThank you so much for mentioning this. This was my first thought when I heard about all the major enterprise sites affected by the DDoS: "How do all these major players have singly-homed DNS"?
- pyvpx 10y agoif you utilize geoip routing features of one provider, it can be difficult to impossible to then ensure repeatable/deterministic behavior on a second provider.
- BHSPitMonkey 10y agoThey could distribute instructions for users to follow, E.g. using some permanent working IPs or alternate DNS servers.
- nickbauman 10y agoGives them time to test the countermeasures before 11/8