So namecheap would need a few different, separate IPv4 subnets. Like the ones they already have? http://bgp.he.net/AS22612#_prefixes
If namecheap chose to stop assigning all customers the same list of DNS servers, it would benefit namecheap as well. There's 200+ people in the queue for live chat right now :) It's not DDOS mitigation or H/A, or some…
They could better protect against it by not assigning the same list of DNS servers to every customer.
I suspect the hackers are targeting one of namecheap's customers, not namecheap directly. Because that's usually the case, a good approach is to not give all customers the exact same nameservers.
Most DDOS attacks against a company like yours are actually attacks against a specific customer. If: a) you had a pool of DNS server names, say 20, all with unrelated hostnames b) you assigned 2 to each customer,…
So namecheap would need a few different, separate IPv4 subnets. Like the ones they already have? http://bgp.he.net/AS22612#_prefixes
If namecheap chose to stop assigning all customers the same list of DNS servers, it would benefit namecheap as well. There's 200+ people in the queue for live chat right now :) It's not DDOS mitigation or H/A, or some…
They could better protect against it by not assigning the same list of DNS servers to every customer.
I suspect the hackers are targeting one of namecheap's customers, not namecheap directly. Because that's usually the case, a good approach is to not give all customers the exact same nameservers.
Most DDOS attacks against a company like yours are actually attacks against a specific customer. If: a) you had a pool of DNS server names, say 20, all with unrelated hostnames b) you assigned 2 to each customer,…