[Aperocky]

It's amazing how much a ddos attack can do.

I read a few days back that when attackers had trouble attacking cloudflare they then went for the internet infrastructure (Internet Exchange) itself. In this case attacking a DNS service can block connection to a much larger set of internet.

[foota]

Fwiw from some info posted above it sounds like it's the automated response to the DDoS causing issues, not the DDoS itself.

[Aperocky]

That would still be part of the ddos though, No mitigation is impact free.

[throw554]

DNS is the weakest link for many companies.