http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/godaddy-outage-makes-websites-unavailable-for-many-internet-users/ By Dan Goodin Ars Technica Sept 10 2012 GoDaddy, one of the Internet's biggest webhosting providers, experienced technical difficulties on Monday that prevented many people from visiting sites that relied on the service for connectivity. A little after 5 p.m. California time on Monday, company officials took to Twitter to say the outage was mostly resolved. "Most customer hosted sites back online," the dispatch stated. "We're working out the last few kinks for our site & control centers. No customer data compromised." Searches using the dig utility also indicated domain name system servers operated by GoDaddy competitor VeriSign were being used to resolve the godaddy.com domain name. Wired reported VeriSign was hosting GoDaddy's DNS servers, too, although Ars couldn't independently verify that. One reason GoDaddy might turn to VeriSign is to avail itself of functional domain-name-resolution services. VeriSign operates a denial-of-service mitigation service called iDefense, so another possibility is that GoDaddy is under attack and is turning to VeriSign for help blocking it. [...] -- #HITB2012KUL - The 10TH ANNUAL HITB Security Conference in Malaysia with no keynotes, no labs - just three tracks filled with our most popular speakers from the last decade: http://conference.hitb.org/Received on Tue Sep 11 2012 - 00:09:44 PDT
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