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I run a DNS hosting service (SlickDNS, www.slickdns.com) and have seen a spike in signups today as a direct result of the Zerigo DDOS attack. I can't claim tha

by jbarham 14y ago

I run a DNS hosting service (SlickDNS, www.slickdns.com) and have seen a spike in signups today as a direct result of the Zerigo DDOS attack. I can't claim that SlickDNS is invulnerable to DDOS attack, but FWIW it does run tinydns name servers which have good performance and excellent security. So if you're impacted by the Zerigo outage, feel free to check out SlickDNS. There's a 30-day free trial with all plans and record updates are pushed through to all the name servers in under 5 seconds.

_phred 14y ago
Sounds good... but do you have a REST API? That's the primary reason I chose Zerigo in the first place.
- jbarham 14y ago
  It's a FAQ: https://www.slickdns.com/faq/#api https://www.slickdns.com/faq/#api ;) The REST API is in final testing, and should be released later this week. It will ship with libraries for Python, Ruby and PHP.
aeden 14y ago
As you're probably aware the server that you use has little impact when the DDoS sends enough traffic to actually saturate your allocated bandwidth. Anycast provides a good way to handle DDoS, along with proactive monitoring and defense mechanisms, but at the end of the day DDoS are still extremely difficult to defend from completely. The downside is that Anycast is expensive and thus you need the capital to build it out and run it - which often raises the cost of systems built using it.
- Igal_Zeifman 14y ago
  Good point but good deflation service will actually provide full-proof DDoS protection, just as long as it got the necessary resources. Having said that, you are 100% correct - if you service provider cannot handle the extra bandwidth, brutal force DDoS will win.