Network Solutions DNS Outage & VOIP provider blues

When the largest registrar of domain names in the world has a DNS outage, all hell starts to break loose. http://www.soonews.ca/viewarticle.php?id=20863

It sure seems a bit more severe than Network solutions admitted to…

Potential Latency on Network Solutions DNS | Network Solutions
There may be some latency on Network Solutions DNS Severs and some queries may be timing out. This may include instances when someone types a domain name into
Network Solutions – Small business… – http://blog.networksolutions.com/

By now it must be obvious to readers of this blog that DNS resolver code as it exists on the name-servers of most hosting providers is not the safe structure it was once assumed to be.

Just Google ” DNS Achilles Heel ” for articles that started appearing years ago:

DNS Achilles Heel

And in case you thought your VOIP phone lines were safe, notice Packet8’s outage…

DNS Issue Temporarily Cripples Packet8 VoIP Service A source tipped me off to a Packet8 VoIP service outage last night & 8×8, DNS, ipconfig, Joan Citelli, outage, packet8, Register.com, voip.
VoIP & Gadgets Blog – http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/
TPile » Blog Archive » Packet 8 Suffers DNS Related Outage – Some
According to posts in our forums, the problem was DNS related. “Registry.com messed up all our entries wiping out the DNS configuration pointing to Packet8/8×8 when they tried to renew the expiration for three of our
TPile – http://popmartian.com/techpile/

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