DNS and BGP and DDoS Attacks—Oh, My! (May 11-17, 2021) | Outage Deep Dive

00:00 Welcome 00:14 Headlines: DNS and BGP and DDoS Attacks—Oh, My! This week we cover a couple of recent service degradation incidents involving DNS providers 2:19 Under the Hood: Kemal Sanjta, ThousandEyes’ resident BGP expert, joins us to discuss the May 6th disruption to Neustar’s UltraDNS service, which lasted nearly four hours. We discuss the BGP routing changes we observed during the incident and what they can tell us about the cause of the disruption. We also cover a separate incident involving Quad 9, a public recursive resolver service, which the company says was caused by a DDoS attack on May 3rd. 16:19 Expert Spotlight: Michael Batchelder (A.K.A., Binky), is here to discuss the two “Ds” of the Internet — DDoS attacks and the DNS Questions for Binky? Contact him at [email protected] 31:49 Outro: Questions? Feedback? Have an idea for a guest? Send us an email at [email protected]