IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks
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'Smart' home devices used as weapons in website attack
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Surprise = zero.
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I wonder if there is going to be an analysis of what kinds of devices were the ones that were really used, like brands and such. ANd if there were firmware updates missing, if it was because there were no firewalls, etc.
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Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
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@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
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@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
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@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
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@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
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My company has two DNS providers, the one I forward my requests to (assuming I'm not using the root hints (I'm not)) and the one that hosts the records so the world can find my email server, my web server, etc.
I might be using a weird way to talk about them.. but it's my current methodology - open to change if there is a better less confusing way.
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@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
But those are generally static records. I guess if the TTL is an hour then you might run into issues.
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@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
If the EHR servers are hosted by Dyn... and we try to do a DNS lookup against Dyn servers while they're being DDOSd... It's not going to reply... or will be painfully slow
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@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
But those are generally static records. I guess if the TTL is an hour then you might run into issues.
Ding ding ding
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@dafyre said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
If the EHR servers are hosted by Dyn... and we try to do a DNS lookup against Dyn servers while they're being DDOSd... It's not going to reply... or will be painfully slow
Well, the EHR servers themselves aren't hosted by Dyn (or at least I don't think so), but the DNS to those servers previously exclusively ran through DynDNS.... and as @coliver said, once the TTL expired, so did all the sessions.
Some people who had this problem simply hosted the EHRs domain on their own internal DNS pointing to the known IP address and it solved their problem (luckily). There could have been the need for several unknown host names which would have made that not work.
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@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
Ah, the cacheing failed from there? But they could move to another provider in, like, five minutes. Faster than the TTL on the records. That's not a viable DDoS vector as you just move.
Can you not use static IPs for their service?
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@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
But those are generally static records. I guess if the TTL is an hour then you might run into issues.
Ding ding ding
LOLSo they just didn't bother to fix it?
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@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
Ah, the cacheing failed from there? But they could move to another provider in, like, five minutes. Faster than the TTL on the records. That's not a viable DDoS vector as you just move.
Can you not use static IPs for their service?
Sounds like that's what they did on Friday from what @Dashrender has mentioned.
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@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@dafyre said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
If the EHR servers are hosted by Dyn... and we try to do a DNS lookup against Dyn servers while they're being DDOSd... It's not going to reply... or will be painfully slow
Well, the EHR servers themselves aren't hosted by Dyn (or at least I don't think so), but the DNS to those servers previously exclusively ran through DynDNS.... and as @coliver said, once the TTL expired, so did all the sessions.
Some people who had this problem simply hosted the EHRs domain on their own internal DNS pointing to the known IP address and it solved their problem (luckily). There could have been the need for several unknown host names which would have made that not work.
Cacheing will fix that too, if you have enough warning to cache. Or just use the hosts file.
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@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
That's not a viable DDoS vector as you just move.
I don't understand how this was such a big outage. DNS is designed to be resilient because of its simplicity. Why companies are still only using a single DNS provider is beyond me.
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@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@scottalanmiller said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@coliver said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
@Dashrender said in IoT devices Used in DDoS Attacks:
Well I was going to send this article to my Doctors to explain to them what happened on Friday, but then they went and tossed that last line in there.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
@scottalanmiller please oh please tell me how that last paragraph applies to this problem?
Because this isn't a DDoS attack against anything but a DNS provider. If you use a different DNS host, I think they are referring to Comodo in the last section there. Then they bypass the issues to an extent. I don't think they are hitting the root DNS servers/farms either just Dyn in this case.
It's an argument for companies to use a redundant/distributed DNS system.
Sure, but how many people were using Dyn for their local DNS resolution? I suppose some might, I know I don't. If I'm not using my local ISPs DNS, I'm using Google's.
In either case, my changing my DNS wouldn't solve the outage my company experienced for our EHR system because our EHR used Dyn as their DNS solution to the world. In my case the solution would be for my EHR vendor to use another DNS provider (and while they didn't dump Dyn, they did diversify and how have DNS with at least three DNS providers when I looked this morning).
How would your EHR's DNS provider cause impact to you as an end user? I'm not saying that it can't, just that there is no obvious connection there. Your SaaS provider doesn't need DNS to provide services to you, you need it to request services from them (and even then, just sometimes, our customers don't need that.) In an established SaaS situation, what is DNS needed for at all?
Not the one they use internally, the one where they publish their records to the world. i.e. DynDNS.
Ah, the cacheing failed from there? But they could move to another provider in, like, five minutes. Faster than the TTL on the records. That's not a viable DDoS vector as you just move.
Can you not use static IPs for their service?
No clue. We only experienced 5 mins of outage over 2-4 PCs out of 90+, so we didn't dig into fixes. The vendor didn't know what the problem was, or at least didn't tell anyone for hours. a customer of theirs writing on an internal forum (luckily hosted elsewhere) dig into it more and found what the real issue was.
