DEVELOPING STORY Network Solutions is having problems with \"all\" its name servers, according to their tech support and a recent postings on North American Network Operators\' Group (NANOG) mailing list indicates that it has been under very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS for the lat 48 hour period. As a result, domain names hosted with Network Solutions\' Worldnic.
Network Solutions is one of the leading domain registrars and DNS hosting providers in the world, managing more than 7.6 million domain names.
Update: Shashi Bellamkonda of network Soltions has provided CircleID the following update I posted an update on our blog http://cli.gs/V12h9p and we have been communicating to our customers on Twitter and have a IVR giving customers an update. The update is: There is a spike in DNS query volumes that is causing latency for the delay in web sites resolving. This is a result of a DDOS attack. We are taking measures to mitigate the attack and speed up queries.
