Ep. 38: DNS and BGP and DDoS AttacksOh, My!

Published: May 21, 2021, 6:30 p.m.

This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what\u2019s working and what\u2019s breaking on the Internet\u2014and why. I\u2019m joined by two guests today to cover a couple of recent service degradation incidents involving DNS providers. In part one of the show, Kemal Sanjta, ThousandEyes\u2019 resident BGP expert, joins us to discuss the May 6th disruption to Neustar\u2019s UltraDNS service, which lasted nearly four hours. We discuss the BGP routing changes we observed during the incident and what they can tell us about the cause of the disruption. We also cover a separate incident involving Quad 9, a public recursive resolver service, which the company says was caused by a DDoS attack on May 3rd. In part two of the show, I\u2019m joined by Michael Batchelder (AKA Binky) to discuss the two \u201cDs\u201d of the Internet \u2014 DDoS attacks and the DNS. Watch this episode to hear about what we saw from ThousandEyes\u2019 perspective.