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Source: ComputerWorld - Posted by Eric Lubow
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In the second attack of its kind in the past few days, Domain Name System (DNS) servers at Network Solutions Inc. were hit by a denial-of-service attack this afternoon, resulting in a brief performance degradation for customers, according to the company. The attacks, which started at around 2:20 p.m. EST, were targeted at the company’s WorldNIC name servers and resulted in a service degradation for about 25 minutes before the server was restored to normal, a spokeswoman for the company said.
A Network Solutions spokeswoman declined to say what measures the Herndon, Va.-based company took to mitigate the attack. Over the weekend, Joker.com, a domain-name registrar in Germany, was hit with a similar distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted service to customers. In an advisory posted on its site, Joker said that “massive� attacks against its DNS servers had affected the DNS resolution of Joker.com as well as domains belonging to its customers.
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