One of the customers of Neustar DNS services provider UltraDNS has been hit with a 100 Gbps distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. As a result, the DNS service was down for several hours on Wednesday for most of the companys other clients.
The SANS Institutes Internet Storm Center has been monitoring the situation.
One reporting party did indicate that they learned that the management of UltraDNS had said that one of their customers was being attacked and that the…