Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Blackout hits major Web sites
Some headline, huh? That's going to grab you by the shorts and get your attention, isn't it? That's one of the few times that I've ever seen ZDNet use such blatant hype (except, of course, when it's hyping The Hard Edge).
Here's the deal: A DNS server at Akamai Technologies bit the dust, possibly because of a denial of service attack. It translates word-based URLs into numeric Web addresses to link surfers to company sites. As a result, the top 40 websites (including Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, according to ratings compiled by Keynote Systems) saw availability drop from 99 percent to around 81 percent.
Some blackout, an 18 percent drop in availability... Try being in New York City when the grid goes down. That's a blackout.
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