xo.net or networksolutions.com issues

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Posted by Red Squirrel, 08-18-2008, 04:12 PM
Anyone know of any issues going on with either of these? I work at an ISP and anyone within our service cannot get to networksolutions.com or sites that are hosted by them. This is a sample traceroute: This traceroute done from my house (I'm using same ISP I work for). I cannot telnet port 80 on any sites that customers have given, such as networksolutions.com. These sites work from other connections though. Anyone aware of some kind of outage with xo or ns?
Posted by tekhead, 08-19-2008, 05:05 AM
fyi, networksolutions.com not available from the UK. Our hosted sites are ok (after earlier downtime) but the ns site has been out of reach for 24hours so no account access. It seems to available in states as we can view using anonymizer. mailed their customer support but nothing yet. th
Posted by nwilkens, 08-20-2008, 03:41 PM
I am sure you may have seen it already, but yes, an issue exists. We are seeing issues from Softlayer data centers. We started seeing issues Friday, 2008-08-15 starting sometime around 5:00 AM ET, email (and other services) have been unable to reach xxxx.netsolmail.net [205.178.149.7].
Posted by David, 08-20-2008, 04:08 PM
It seems they've been blocking copious amounts of IP addresses in order to mitigate a ddos.
Posted by burbeary, 08-20-2008, 06:25 PM
Network Solutions has blocked several ranges of IPs in order to halt the DDOS attacks. As soon as the involved parties have been tracked down service will resume as usual.