15–16 Oct 2016
The Fairmont Dallas
US/Central timezone

What to do with SERVFAIL (the day wd2go.com fell off the Internet)

16 Oct 2016, 09:30
30m
Gold (The Fairmont Dallas)

Gold

The Fairmont Dallas

1717 N Akard St Dallas, TX 75201 USA
Standard Presentation Public Workshop Public Workshop: Data Analysis

Speaker

Mr Ralf Weber (Nominum Inc)

Description

On August 3rd around 12:40 UTC the name servers for wd2go.com stopped answering queries. As this domain is used by a lot of Western Digital software devices for cloud backup these devices stopped functioning. In addition to this they issued lots of DNS queries to get to their servers. This talk looks into what burden these devices put on recursive resolvers and what in turn the different resolver implementations do with this traffic that SERVFAILS.
Talk duration 30 Minutes

Primary author

Mr Ralf Weber (Nominum Inc)

Presentation materials