Solve : DNS attack affects NZ's biggest ISP?

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Answer» In New Zealand this is big NEWS. For the rest of us, it is of some interest. Quote Cyber CRIMINALS blamed for three-day DDoS. New Zealand's largest telco and internet service provider Spark suffered a three-day long outage over the weekend, as its Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure became overwhelmed in what the company said was a "dynamic cyber attack". The outage meant customers were unable to browse the web and utilise other services requiring name service resolution though Spark's ALLOCATED DNS servers. Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/391808,dns-attack-affects-nzs-biggest-isp.aspx#ixzz3CpZzC0VI (It was on Sept. 6 and 7, this year.) So what did they recommend as a work-around? Quote As the problems continued over the weekend, Spark advised users via Twitter and the web to switch their automatically allocated DNS servers to others such as Google's Comments?I'd have liked to see them having better protection over their DNS servers but their work-around is totally sound. I imagine they will step up protection of their DNS servers from now on.Curious as to what you are running for hardware specs? Depending on what you have for hardware there may be limitations to distros etc. Most people I know using xubuntu are running it because they are running older Pentium III generation and early Pentium 4 generation SYSTEMS that have memory limitations to MAX supported RAM. And xubuntu is a lighter weight distro than that of the ubuntu os to work better with systems with lesser RAM and CPU processing power.HuuuHH ? ?

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In New Zealand this is big NEWS.
For the rest of us, it is of some interest.
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Cyber CRIMINALS blamed for three-day DDoS.
New Zealand's largest telco and internet service provider Spark suffered a three-day long outage over the weekend, as its Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure became overwhelmed in what the company said was a "dynamic cyber attack".
The outage meant customers were unable to browse the web and utilise other services requiring name service resolution though Spark's ALLOCATED DNS servers.
Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/391808,dns-attack-affects-nzs-biggest-isp.aspx#ixzz3CpZzC0VI

(It was on Sept. 6 and 7, this year.)
So what did they recommend as a work-around?
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As the problems continued over the weekend, Spark advised users via Twitter and the web to switch their automatically allocated DNS servers to others such as Google's

Comments?I'd have liked to see them having better protection over their DNS servers but their work-around is totally sound. I imagine they will step up protection of their DNS servers from now on.Curious as to what you are running for hardware specs?

Depending on what you have for hardware there may be limitations to distros etc.

Most people I know using xubuntu are running it because they are running older Pentium III generation and early Pentium 4 generation SYSTEMS that have memory limitations to MAX supported RAM. And xubuntu is a lighter weight distro than that of the ubuntu os to work better with systems with lesser RAM and CPU processing power.HuuuHH ? ?

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