It’s been a rough week for Dreamhost which has, in turn, made for a rough week for ninebullets.

Today has been especially bad. Apparently Dreamhost is suffering from some sort of DNS issues which is making the site extremely slow and, at times, totally unresponsive. Until they get this fixed I am not gonna try and post anything….it’s just too god damned frustrating.

See y’all tomorrow, heopfully.

From Dreamhost:

Update: We have found the source of the problem. It looks like there is a windows trojan going around that attempted to make contact with a domain that is pointing to our nameservers, but isn’t actually being hosted by us (was likely an old customer that removed it from hosting, but didn’t change the nameservers to point away from us). This caused the flood of traffic to come in and overwhelm our DNS servers. You can find more information about this trojan here:

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojsecondtaa.html

Unfortunately, DNS attacks are nearly impossible to stop if they’re well crafted. In this case, all of the traffic is perfectly legitimate and there’s nothing special about the packets that any protection system could really block. We are in contact with verisign (the registrar of that domain) now to try and stop this domain from pointing to our nameservers and are doing everything we can on our end to resolve this issue.