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DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group
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DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group
DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/easydns/
By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
December 9, 2010
A DNS provider that suffered backlash last week after it was wrongly
identified as supplying and then dropping DNS service to WikiLeaks has
decided to support the secret-spilling site, offering DNS service to two
domains distributing WikiLeaks content.
EasyDNS, a Canadian firm, was attacked last Friday after media outlets
mistakenly reported it had terminated its service for WikiLeaks. The
company sent an e-mail to customers Thursday morning letting them know
that it had begun providing DNS service for WikiLeaks.ch and
WikiLeaks.nl, two of the primary domain names WikiLeaks relocated to
after WikiLeaks.org stopped resolving.
"We=E2=80=99ve already done the time, we might as well do the crime," Mark
Jeftovic, president and CEO of EasyDNS, told Threat Level about his
decision.
DNS service providers translate human-friendly domain names to IP
addresses, so when someone types www.Amazon.com into their browser, for
example, they=E2=80=99re properly connected to 72.21.211.176, the address of the
host.
It was actually EveryDNS, a competitor of EasyDNS, that had been
providing this service to WikiLeaks.org for free. EveryDNS terminated
this service last week after WikiLeaks was hit by prolonged
denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by people opposed to the group
publishing classified U.S. State Department cables. The company said the
denial-of-service attacks against WikiLeaks threatened the stability of
service for other EveryDNS customers.
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