[App_rpt-users] Network wide outage and Security Alert

[Eric Fort]

Is this really a network wide outage or simply the transition spoken of by the board announcement slightly earlier today?

Eric

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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 6:10 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> wrote:
> 
> Allstarlink is having a network wide outage starting about 6pm EST/2300 UTC.
> 
> The registration services are down, and all web services are down.  It appears
> the dns glue records at the .org servers have been re-pointed to different
> servers.
> $ dig ns allstarlink.org.  @b2.org.afilias-nst.org.
> 
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;allstarlink.org.        IN    NS
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> allstarlink.org.    86400    IN    NS    tony.ns.cloudflare.com.
> allstarlink.org.    86400    IN    NS    evelyn.ns.cloudflare.com.
> 
> 
> Prior to this they were:
> allstarlink.org.    2445    IN    NS    dirtyparrot.digiflux.org.
> allstarlink.org.    2445    IN    NS    caustic-sea.allstarlink.org.
> allstarlink.org.    2445    IN    NS    ns2.afraid.org.
> 
> This effectively changed the entire allstarlink.org DNS to point to a
> different set of servers which returns bunk data.
> 
> example:
> $ dig register.allstarlink.org.
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;register.allstarlink.org.    IN    A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> register.allstarlink.org. 60    IN    CNAME    allstarlink.org.
> allstarlink.org.    60    IN    A    34.105.111.212
> 
> This is a security problem as your registrations is being passed to an unknown
> server.  You need to take immediate action and modify your nodes to not
> register to register.allstarlink.org.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bryan Fields
> 
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> http://bryanfields.net
> 
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