We'll post a more extensive post-mortem once we have a better understanding of what happened, but our main goal at the moment has been to ensure systems remain stable and responsive.
- The downtime was 40 minutes (according to Pingdom), that isn't short for something as critical as DNS.
- It seems off to pimp yourself on a thread about a competitors downtime, especially when you had a significant one at pretty much the same time.
Can any unicast provider even really get close to fighting an attack like this?
Let's be serious at some point.... 6 servers... the MOST you can push is 6 Gbps. And most likely they are bound to about 400 Mbps of DNS traffic (based on CPU load). Unless you have hundreds of name servers and multiple locations... are you even really competing in uptime anymore?