Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities ...

Amazon: This week’s AWS outage caused by major DNS failure

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online ...

Amazon says a DNS error caused the AWS outage. What does that mean?

The company says the Amazon Web Services outage that disrupted online activity for a large portion of the internet on Monday ...

Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions

On Monday afternoon, Amazon confirmed that an outage affecting Amazon Web Services’ cloud hosting, which had impacted ...

Amazon breaks down the DynamoDB DNS problem that took down AWS on Monday.

This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours. Amazon says its changes in response include temporarily ...
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AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days — automation systems race and crash

The root cause was reportedly that the DNS configuration for DynamoDB (database service) was broken and published to Route53 ...