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Re:DNSimple DDOS Attack by petercooper on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:10PM (#8683816)
How are you exporting the zone with things as they are?
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Re:DNSimple DDOS Attack by whafro on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:56PM (#8684136)
Oof, really good point – I suppose I got lucky in that I was at dnsimple.com just a few hours ago for other purposes. Their DNS was still cached for me, and it all worked flawlessly. I didn't even suspect their outage extended to their web servers, though that makes perfect sense.

FWIW, the IP I have cached is 50.31.213.210.

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Re:DNSimple DDOS Attack by Pwnguinz on Monday December 01, 2014 @06:07PM (#8684633)
How were you able to find out what IP was cached for a particular domain?
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Re:DNSimple DDOS Attack by algiecas on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:21PM (#8683889)
same question here - how did you do this while dnsimple.com is inaccessible?
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Re:DNSimple DDOS Attack by zuccs on Monday December 01, 2014 @10:47PM (#8685602)
You can force your hosts file locally. Set "dnsimple.com" to "50.31.213.210". On Mac use "sudo pico /etc/hosts" and follow the formatting of the other entries.
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