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This refers to a Guardian article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-knocked-off-net-dns-everydns http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/
by CWuestefeld 16y ago
This refers to a Guardian article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-knocked-off-net-dns-everydns http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-k... ):
The California-based internet hosting provider that dropped WikiLeaks at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday), Everydns, says it did so to prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense cyber attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.
The site this morning said it had "move[d] to Switzerland", announcing a new domain name -- wikileaks.ch, with the Swiss suffix. However, the new address still only points to an IP address, suggesting WikiLeaks has been unable to quickly find a new hosting provider.
I'm having a hard time seeing how the DDoS attack could affect the DNS provider in any appreciable way.
- jdp23 16y agoHere's a description of a 2006 DDoS attack against EveryNET: http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns... Attacking techniques have gotten better since then, and botnets have gotten bigger.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoSo there are (or were) two separate DDoS attacks going on? (One against the site itself, and a second that hits the DNS that hosts its name)