SCO to use new domain for the duration of MyDoom DDoS
2nd February, 2004
The SCO Group, Inc. will use www.thescogroup.com as an alternate web site while www.sco.com remains under a denial of service attack from machines infected with the My Doom worm, the company said this morning. The URL is expected to serve as an interm site for SCO through Feb. 12, when the DDoS is expected to conclude. "SCO has developed layers of contingency plans to communicate with our valued customers, resellers, developers, partners and shareholders," asid Jeff Carlon, the company's director of worldwide IT infrastructure, who called the new domain "the first step" in its planning.
sco.com actually resolves to the same ip address as www.thescogroup.com.
% host sco.com sco.com has address 216.250.128.21 % host www.thescogroup.com www.thescogroup.com has address 216.250.128.21 %
Performance data on www.thescogroup.com is available now.
Posted by Rich Miller in Performance
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