On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Mark Keymer <m...@viviotech.net> wrote: > Hi, > > So this started a little while ago but seems to be getting worse. > > What I am seeing is dns servers over at godaddy not replying however I seem > to be able to traceroute ok to them. Also I have started to see that the > whois.godaddy.com servers also seem to be having issues as well with "Whois > information is currently unavailable. Please try again later." > > Anyone else also seeing issues this morning? And able to confirm the issue is > with godaddy?
I've seen reports of this for a week or so, with the symptoms looking like overly aggressive abuse / query rate handling - packets from networks containing busy resolvers being blocked. Grapevine tells me that they don't think they're doing it intentionally (maybe they outsourced something and it broke?). Cheers, Steve