 DavidNow accepting new patientsPremium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
kudos:78 | slight problem From what I understand the authoritative servers are under attack, if that's the case no one is going to get an answer. Even the great google won't get one. |
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 TamaraBQuestion The Current ParadigmPremium
join:2000-11-08
Da Bronx
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Clearwire Wireless
| said by David:From what I understand the authoritative servers are under attack, if that's the case no one is going to get an answer. Even the great google won't get one.
Only addresses under the AT&T domain are controlled by those servers. AT&T customers needing to resolve addresses outside of AT&T can use any alternate public DNS servers. |
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If you're talking about the DNS servers that are authoritative for AT&T-hosted domains, then no, no one will be able to resolve them, no matter what servers they use or what network they're on. But I get the impression that this is referring to the DNS servers that AT&T customers use by default. If it's those that are under attack, then using alternative servers will get around that.
Now if you mean that it's the root servers that are under attack, well, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. |
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DNSguy
join:2006-04-09
Broomfield, CO
kudos:3 | It was not referring to the DNS resolvers our customers use. You were correct in your first statement - only the servers that are authoritative for AT&T hosted domains were under attack. Using alternate servers would not help at all, as those servers would be unable to get replies. |
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| That's definitely the case. Our company was crippled due to this attack. We were already in the process of migrating from AT&T's servers to another provider so we sped up that transition. Then we had to wait for the changes to propagate.
It has not been a fun 24 hours. |
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