Tech Writing Fail

So The Reg no longer bothers to know about simple things like DNS propagation taking time because of caching?

tcs.com was NOT hacked....

please guys, I expected better from you lot...

[Disclaimer: I'm an employee of TCS, though naturally I'm posting this in my personal capacity]

tcs.com was NOT hacked yesterday. What did happen was that the DNS records that supply the IP were reset to some other IP.

Whether that was done by actually hacking netsol or by social engineering a valid change request I do not know.

I know the site was fine because going through the internal DNS got me the correct IP address and the correct content.

I believe the problem started sometime before 1am IST [this is a wild guess, from other symptoms; don't ask, heh heh!], and was resolved around noon or so [this guess is more accurate because I was semi-actively monitoring it].

In both instances, it would have taken a few hours for the bad data to expire from DNS caches. Depending on who your DNS provider is, you may have seen it "come back" at different times. If you were running your own DNS, you could have purged your DNS cache manually and would know more accurately when it came back.

At this point in time I am still receiving reports of other DNS servers still showing the bad data. Just tell them to purge their DNS caches if you know them, or switch to openDNS. They've got the right stuff, and have had it a lot longer than the chocolate factory's DNS :)