Who broke the internet?

alanwsg

Quite a good write-up here .....


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/dyn_dns_ddos_explained/

Head_The_Ball

globalds wrote: »

http://time.com/4540265/internet-outages-ddos-dns/

Russian aircraft carrier off the coast ..Now spotify is down..This really looks like the end for the western world.

Not really.

MacDonalds, Starbucks and Greggs are still operating so normal life can carry on.

Jivesinger

emptybox wrote: »

I rebooted my router a number of times, thinking that it might the problem.

Nice to know it wasn't my equipment anyway.

... unless your router has the default password, in which case it might have been one of many gadgets and gizmos which were seemingly dragooned into making the attack.

emptybox

Jivesinger wrote: »

... unless your router has the default password, in which case it might have been one of many gadgets and gizmos which were seemingly dragooned into making the attack.

It doesnae.

S0litaire

Think I'm the only one that's not noticed anything different in my browsing for the past 24 hours...

Well i did sleep in till 1pm today... and spent most of last night watching movies...

paddyrg

DNS federation may solve the weak point, but there's always going to be a bottleneck of one or another form. All these over the top protocols like DNS, SMTP were built with a civilised world in mind, not the savagery of spammers, scammers, spies etc. Early internet used to be such a nice, innocent place. Somewhere, a friend still has a printout of Yahoo, the whole of Yahoo, back before Google, when they were relevant.

sillygoose

Anyone on Virgin media? All I am getting is DNS errors and no internet.. connecting to the modem and router status pages all seems to be working.. just no sites. Tried alternative dns servers and of course rebooting everything.. nope. Ran virgin self test which didnt help. Typing this on my phone...

I know Branson doesnt own virgin media now but perhaps its been targeted because he had a pop at Trump?

mr_fishbulb

Toasters, Kettles, Fridges and Thermostats. The "Things" are rising up and taking over, as predicted in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive.

AndyPix

IoT is great isn't it ..


/sarcasm

forgotmyname

Will anyone think twice before ordering a cheap electronic gadget from China?
Especially one that connects to your WIFI or phone.

I wonder if my cheap U8 watch would have been working away if the battery had not died and i forgot to recharge it?