From: http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=220200070
Samara Lynn, ChannelWeb
Thu. Sep. 24, 2009 11:38 AM EDT
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EditDNS, the popular hosted DNS provider, is struggling to recover from a devastating Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. The scale of the attack recalls the massive DDoS attack last month that brought down some of the Internet's most popular sites.
The provider sent out an e-mail to customers late yesterday detailing the crippling effects. The attack was leveraged against the provider over the course of the past several days.
EditDNS' e-mail is blunt about the impact the DDoS attack had:
"As this attack was very big, it was a huge blow to the EditDNS project. It was very time-consuming and very expensive to filter out the attack, pay for bandwidth overages, and add new equipment/servers. "
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