Anyone host DNS with Joker?

All their DNS servers have been down for a few days now; consequently their website unavailable.

Most hosted names do resolve - in the end, but www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) never does.

Joker DNS servers are unavailable from most parts of the world for a few days now.


http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=joker.com&type=A


fails miserably, as it does for most joker hosted domain names.

I’m only using their website now because of an /etc/hosts entry pointing to 194.176.0.86

194.176.0.86 www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) joker.com

All these fail:

nslookup www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) 207.44.185.10

nslookup www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) 194.176.0.2

Whats going on? I’ve filed a support ticket, lets see what they say…


Anybody else noticed anything?

Anyone host DNS with Joker?

All their DNS servers have been down for a few days now; consequently their website unavailable.

Most hosted names do resolve - in the end, but www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) never does.

Joker DNS servers are unavailable from most parts of the world for a few days now.


http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=joker.com&type=A


fails miserably, as it does for most joker hosted domain names.

I’m only using their website now because of an /etc/hosts entry pointing to 194.176.0.86

194.176.0.86 www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) joker.com

All these fail:

nslookup www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) 207.44.185.10

nslookup www.joker.com (http://www.joker.com) 194.176.0.2

Whats going on? I’ve filed a support ticket, lets see what they say…


Anybody else noticed anything?

I filed a support ticket there (with the help of /etc/hosts) and things seem to be coming back now.

a.ns.joker.com is working, not the rest yet though

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/traversal.ch?domain=joker.com&type=A

Again the lesson is file support tockers early!

Sam

I filed a support ticket there (with the help of /etc/hosts) and things seem to be coming back now.

a.ns.joker.com is working, not the rest yet though

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/traversal.ch?domain=joker.com&type=A

Again the lesson is file support tockers early!

Sam

Spoke to soon:

DDOS Attack on Joker.com Nameservers Joker.com currently experiences massive distributed denial of service attacks against nameservers.
This affects DNS resolution of Joker.com itself, and also domains which make use of Joker.com nameservers.
We are very sorry for this issue, but we are working hard for a permanent solution.
Thank you for your understanding,

Your Team of Joker.com

It's possible to hit joker.com if you make local host entries pointing to 194.176.0.86 (just putting the IP in a browser doesn't seem to do the trick)

You can then point your DNS someplace else - but it may take 24 hours or so to have effect due to caching.

Considering things have been up and down for maybe 36 hours now - I have no faith in them resolving it in a timely manner. the traceroutes I'm getting back now actually look worse.

what really kind of gets me is that it looks like joker.com itself only points to one of it's own name servers... not good practice...