Posts Tagged ‘Last Friday’

DNS attack slowed down hundreds of thousands of websites

Monday, January 26th, 2009
A DDoS attack on the DNS servers of the domain registrar Network Solutions slowed down access to hundreds of thousands of websites during several hours last Friday (January 23).Network solutions updated their blog with information about the problem:There may be some latency on Network Solutions DNS Severs and some queries may be timing out. This may include instances when someone types a domain name into a browser and the website will temporarily not resolve. Network Solutions Operations is wo