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Namecheap DNS

SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

Anyone else seeing interruptions with Namecheap's hosted DNS currently (past 20 minutes)?

That is, their domain name servers DNS[1-3].REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM

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  • .YES

    But up now.

  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

    Glad its not just me. I hope they fix it soon.

    # dig uk.monitor.x3b.org @DNS1.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM
    ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
    ;; communications error to 208.64.122.242#53: connection reset
    
  • Yeah i really would like to use them more, seems awesome on paper, but i tried it a couple of times and they keep having issues here and there, only have one domain using it now (not running anything important for now) and yes it was glitching a bit, seems good now :)

  • I don't see why they didn't move them behind DDoS protected services after the last outage?

    Thanked by 1linuxthefish
  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

    More than likely its a complicated attack, or related to total capacity. Given that alot of DDoS attacks involve DNS packets, mitigation for DNS services can be a bit tricky.

    Everything seems to have calmed down now, failures reduced to only a handful every minute as of 20 minutes ago, and have stopped entirely now.

  • geekalotgeekalot Member
    edited October 2014

    @SplitIce, This is one of my few gripes with Namecheap ... (that and the fact that their Whois Privacy is not free after the first year).

    I had to move to other solutions for DNS on quite a few domains because of previous DDoS attacks in February 2014.

    A shame, because their DNS features are great for a free service (especially their URL forwarding -- it is better than NameSilo's IMHO).

    BTW, supposedly their DNS v1 (less features) seems to be less prone to the attacks.

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