As we all know, on Friday Oct 21, 2016 DNS provider Dynect was severely impacted by a big DDoS attack which has since been attributed to the Mirai Botnet. (interesting to note that “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese). Briefly: The Mirai Botnet is constructed by commandeering network connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as remote cameras, or any other ... View Post
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The Case for Hot Swappable Nameservers
(reprint of an article we once wrote for CircleId) Earlier this week we announced our "Proactive Nameservers”, which is just marketing speak for what it really is: hot swappable nameservers or nameserver fail over. What is it? Basically this: you define some warm spare nameservers that are not normally in your delegation you load those servers up ... View Post