[Boatanchors] Internet issues over Holiday weekend

[J Forster]

>From my readings, mainly related to spam issues, a number of the Domain Name
Servers belonging to major league spam operations have experienced DDOS DNS
attacks. For example,

http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/12696-breaking-news-bfhc-hackers-shut-down-milnic-media-spam-operation.html

IMO, spam operations like Millnic richly deserve all the grief they get as
they make life miserable for others. I've been spammed by them and their
buddies over 600 times for cell phone ring tones. Good for the attackers !!

YMMV,
-John



rbethman wrote:

> Group,
>
> There was some "strange" quirks/issues that occurred on Sep 2.
>
> List postings to QTH.NET and Yahoo groups had some blocking, some VERY
> long delays, and the like.
>
> I'd like to share that from MY network snooping around the country, that
> this was NOT caused by the list servers/services.
>
> There was apparently, once AGAIN, some DNS, (Name Server), difficulties.
>
> I could "see" a pattern, BUT could NOT pinpoint a "specific" source.
>
> In other words, NO one was losing their mind, (your sanity may or may
> NOT be in doubt - that is a personal item<G>), it WAS a technical problem.
>
> Bob - N0DGN