# Godaddy DNS down, and with it a bunch of the interwebs

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [September 10, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845 "2012-09-10T11:53:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/1 "2012-09-10T11:53:08Z")

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Way to go Anonymous

> **[GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims...](https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29)**
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> According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining...

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/2 "2012-09-10T11:54:30Z")

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lol…kinda :(. My site is on godaddy. Meh

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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/3 "2012-09-10T12:04:04Z")

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> [@ProgRocker](#):
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> lol…kinda :(. My site is on godaddy. Meh

Two of ours at work. One of the guys was working on some changes this afternoon and all of a sudden couldn’t get to it.

:tup: to the twitterverse helping us find the issue almost immediately once we realized it was DNS related.

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**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/4 "2012-09-10T12:08:38Z")

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Asshat…

Yeah lets show those thousands of small and medium sized businesses whats up! If it was a single guy like he claims, he sounds like a foreigner.

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/5 "2012-09-10T12:10:27Z")

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So someone rented a botnet OR this is like the FBI thing and GoDaddy has a routing issue

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> [@JayS](#):
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> Two of ours at work. One of the guys was working on some changes this afternoon and all of a sudden couldn’t get to it.
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> :tup: to the twitterverse helping us find the issue almost immediately once we realized it was DNS related.

I got something for you…

[http://pastebin.com/2qbRKh3R](http://pastebin.com/2qbRKh3R)

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/6 "2012-09-10T12:12:00Z")

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> [@MOBOOST4U](#):
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> Asshat…
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> Yeah lets show those thousands of small and medium sized businesses whats up! If it was a single guy like he claims, he sounds like a foreigner.

According to his twitter, brazil I believe. It’s wayyyyyyy more than thousands. For a while Wikipedia was either hosted or registered or both with GoDaddy.

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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/7 "2012-09-10T12:17:17Z")

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> [@LZ](#):
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> I got something for you…
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> [http://pastebin.com/2qbRKh3R](http://pastebin.com/2qbRKh3R)

lol… just forwarded this to a debit card processor I work with

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/8 "2012-09-10T12:55:54Z")

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Looks like some stuff is coming back up…logging into my site now.

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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/9 "2012-09-10T12:58:07Z")

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Still down here

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/10 "2012-09-10T13:00:44Z")

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And database connection error…front end works, backend not so much

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**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/11 "2012-09-10T13:02:57Z")

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I hate GoDaddy. Namecheap FTW

The hacker is right tho. There is a lot of problems with DNS in the world and he is just showing it.

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/12 "2012-09-10T13:04:36Z")

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> [@ProgRocker](#):
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> And database connection error…front end works, backend not so much

SQL server pointed at DNS entry?

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**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/13 "2012-09-10T13:25:25Z")

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> [@LZ](#):
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> SQL server pointed at DNS entry?

clustered…

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/14 "2012-09-10T17:07:21Z")

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^indeed

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**Author:** ![Mankthetank19](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mankthetank19/32/5295_2.png) [@Mankthetank19](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mankthetank19)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/15 "2012-09-10T17:45:12Z")

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I would go with Geocities for hosting purposes…

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**Author:** ![Gus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gus/32/5112_2.png) [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/16 "2012-09-11T05:51:48Z")

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> [@Mankthetank19](#):
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> I would go with Geocities for hosting purposes…

Geocities?!? hah

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/17 "2012-09-11T06:13:35Z")

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Switching my site over…How’s it look so far?

![http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Screen-shot-2010-04-27-at-8.48.28-AM-550x433.png](http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Screen-shot-2010-04-27-at-8.48.28-AM-550x433.png)

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**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/18 "2012-09-11T06:25:49Z")

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Those all better be marquees

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/19 "2012-09-11T06:26:37Z")

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Still waiting for the GoDaddy press release

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**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/godaddy-dns-down-and-with-it-a-bunch-of-the-interwebs/225845/20 "2012-09-11T07:08:50Z")

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that’s what they get for supporting SOPA

don’t fuck with the internet

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