123-Reg DNS

[Benjamin Dyer]

Just spotted that 123-Reg are under a pretty serious DDoS attack. If you have domains with them your site is probably unavailable at the moment. Search Twitter for real time updates.

Sorry for the bad news.

[leehack]

3 million domain names affected, source is from China apparently. Gulp.

[Benjamin Dyer]

3 million domain names affected, source is from China apparently. Gulp.

I have sympathies with them.

They are doing a pretty good job at keeping people updated:

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/system-status/

[webfusion]

Hello,

I'm Nerys and I work here at 123-Reg.


At around 11am yesterday (23/05/12) 123-reg was included on a large scale DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) with the result of a traffic surge through to our DNS systems. This attack was identified by our network team who made immediate changes to remove the DDOS traffic from within our core network, and within 15 minutes key work was completed routing traffic through our redundant connections and blocking the incoming traffic on our core network.

Being the largest domain provider we are a prime target for this type of activity, and we know this type of activity is on the increase – particularly in Europe – as recent press coverage has shown.

With that in mind, 123-reg takes the protection and monitoring of our core infrastructure very seriously. To support that we have built in redundancy within the core network and a team in place to support this. Through that team we were able to quickly respond and start making changes immediately.

Our customers are our core focus, and keeping their sites and services online, and keeping them informed, is our top priority.

Generally our status page is updated with information of any work that is on-going, however in a DDoS situation like this customers may not be able to get to that page. Our first port of call is to update our phone status message, Tweet and post on FaceBook, which we did. During this period of time we had an influx of calls coming through to us where our phone system and team were able to inform customers of the current status.

123-reg are proud to be the UK’s choice for domain names and hosting services.

Regards,

Nerys