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DNS Provider ZoneEdit Downed By Denial Of Service Attack

Antone Gonsalves writes on InformationWeek:

Domain name service provider ZoneEdit has suffered a massive denial of service attack that has left thousands of customers with intermittent service over at least two days.

The attack, which started early Tuesday morning Eastern time and continued Wednesday, affected four of ZoneEdit's 25 domain name servers, said George DeCarlo, senior VP of marketing for Vancouver, Wash.-based Dotster, which owns ZoneEdit. "It really was a massive denial of service attack," he said.

Less than 5% of ZoneEdit's customer base was affected, but that amounts to thousands of customers, DeCarlo said. He refused to provide more specific numbers.

posted by Fergie @ 12/20/2006 01:37:00 PM