Talk:EveryDNS

Requests from Davidu
I've never been an "IT Consultant" -- Can someone fix that so I don't self-edit?

--Davidu 08:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

In regards to the recent edit about being the largest free DNS provider, there are all kinds of definitions of large from amount of bits transferred to number of zones served and a 100 things in-between. Not sure if anyone can either dispute it or prove it. I'm not overly concerned, just figured I'd point it out since someone made the edit and the revert.

--Davidu 05:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Ongoing Denial of Service Attack
EveryDNS appears to be undergoing a denial of service attack, hence the service disruption that was recently described on the article page. I added a timestamp and description as a denial of service attack to the page, if anyone happens to notice that the service comes back up before that item is removed from the article, please help out and remove it. —Krellis 00:17, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Aha. Thanks for the update.  It's a bloody pain in the arse, though, since it means almost all of the websites I maintain are now dead, heh.  Good luck to the EDNS guys in stabbing the people that are purportrating it. --Veratien 00:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * damn... that's why my webpage is going up and down... I hope the guys from Everydns can solve this ASAP. --190.45.133.23 00:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Quite. It's causing rather a lot of issues for me. --Veratien 01:05, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Anyone knows where to get official info about this? --190.45.133.23 01:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The OpenDNS Blog has a posting about an interruption of their service. More details are posted in the OpenDNS status entry, where they promise that further information about the attack will be shared on the OpenDNS blog.  So that's probably a good place to watch for updates. —Krellis 03:12, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * IT is creating issues for thousands of domains and probably millions of people. However, last time this happend was early 2003 so overall quality of the service is great for being Free. Just sad that there are so many complete idiots destroying stuff for people. Sad really. --83.227.78.203 01:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

So this is why macports.org (which uses the everydns nameservers) is down. :( I'm considering editing the macports article to mention the attack. Hopefully Murphy's Law will go into effect and they'll be back up right after I make the edit. Kerohazel 01:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It seems to be over now. --190.45.133.23 02:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems to be a hit and miss type of thing, one moment it is up than the next moment it is down. --BC 03:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * That's the nature of the beast with this type of attack. Get effective filters in place for one nameserver, and it'll be overloaded with legitimate requests.  And worst of all, if the attackers are actively pursuing the attack, they can work around filters as fast as the EveryDNS team can put them in. —Krellis 03:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

From www.everydns.net: "Update #3: December 2st, 2006. EveryDNS is currently under a wide-scale DDoS attack. The attack is currently being mitigated and service is restored. All services are under close watch by a team of network administrators around the world."

"I want to give a special thanks to Richard Steenbergen at nLayer for going above and beyond the call of any network operator to help keep EveryDNS online and to Barrett Lyon of BitGravity for his excellent abilities in turning a 400mbps attack into a 2mbps stream of valid DNS requests."

It looks like several of the everydns.net nameservers have changed IP address. Old IPs may be cached for some time, which would explain why the services still appear to be down for some people while they're working fine for others. —Krellis 17:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

New Update From Everydns's website:

Update: EveryDNS is currently experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which started last Friday. We have not been contacted by the person doing the attack and have no idea why it is happening. If you have any information about why this attack is taking place, please email me personally (david [at] ulevitch.com). Thanks for all your support while we get through this. --190.45.133.23 03:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

EveryDNS Geographic Distribution After Dyn Inc. Transition
Maybe this can/should make its way into the main article? Rabbitcore (talk) 14:52, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Define "DNS", "DNS Management" and why would someone need it
I get the impression having some kind of DNS service is necessary to run a web-site, but do not know what "DNS" is, how it works, why it needs management. Also, what's the difference between a free service vs. (I assume) paid, and why would you pick one or the other?

All of these questions fall within the larger context of how it relates to the Wikileaks story, which is why I am here. ````Jonny Quick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.251.249 (talk) 07:08, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

No longer free
Just a quick mention that everydns no longer will be providing free dns service as of (well I forget the specific date. three months from now) The article needs to be changed to reflect that. --168.215.131.150 (talk) 21:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Discontinued, August 30th, 2011
EveryDNS started redirecting remaining user's domains on August 30th, 2011. Also even though they said they had sent out emails telling people about this, not many have seen them. Kayfox (talk) 17:48, 30 August 2011 (UTC)