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Paypal, Twitter, and Other Major Sites Hit by DDoS

posted by takyon on Friday October 21 2016, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-the-net dept.

e_armadillo writes:

I just tried to access my Paypal account, and apparently it is down.

Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by a major outage:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/netflix-twitter-internet-down-not-working-broken-paypal-ebay-facebook-instagram-a7374506.html

Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @03:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @03:26AM (#417512)

    There are 13 root "servers", using anycast so they are more than 13, from different organizations. They got hit by some DDoS, last one in 2015, no TV news unlike this one. One of the organizations having a serious problem should also be no problem.

    Attack against Dyn cripples it, and all networks they resolve go down with it. Grudge/extortion, intrusion or bankrupcy, same deal, we just got the proof today they are a single point of failure.

    So why don't spread and use multiple providers as general rule? They would had to nuke the DNS operations of Linode, Dyn, and 3 more to make Soylent disappear with this trick. And where I said Soylent, I mean really bigger fishes, just using it for the "5 servers". I guess big fishes are have their minds so "clouded" that they forgot about single points of failure. We will see in the future, worth checking the whois of these "clown fishes" and see if they still use a single DNS provider.

    Oh! Paypal already using 6 servers, 2-3 organizations (themselves is not exactly the best, at some point you will need the other 2, right?).
          Name Server: NS1.P57.DYNECT.NET
          Name Server: NS3.P57.DYNECT.NET
          Name Server: PDNS100.ULTRADNS.COM
          Name Server: PDNS100.ULTRADNS.NET
          Name Server: PPNS1.PHX.PAYPAL.COM
          Name Server: PPNS2.PHX.PAYPAL.COM
          Updated Date: 21-oct-2016