Posted on 10/21/2016 9:41:28 AM PDT by Beowulf9
For more than two hours on Friday morning, much of the web seemed to grind to a halt—or at least slow to dial-up speed—for many users in the United States.
More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.
How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“I should qualify by stating that I’m able to access Twitter using a browser via my PC - not a phone. Does that matter?”
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Also on PC and Twitter won’t load for me.
Twitter just came back up moments ago evidently. I am just as a few min ago able to access it.
All of this shutdown occurred a few hours ago and some are just getting back on.
I am worried that it is as a result of Obama’s transferrance of the net to, I think, China. I can’t find much on it other than it was going to happen and I think did happen. But what does it mean?
I tried to post this but FR says can’t, it’s a blog. I can’t find news stories on it to post.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
The Internet could restart on the strength of that one!
Until Trump gets in and works to mae USA a partner and work to bring back some sanity to the internet.
Make.
This is interesting.....because let’s say it is known that Oct 26th is the day the Hillary emails will be dumped. What if they killswitch the internet on the 25th and blame it on “Russian Hackers”, both to make it harder to view and send the email info, but also to create a “Big story” that will suck up the news, then tie it to Putin and then Trump and conflate the whole issue.
It would THEN also set up the idea that if Trump wins, it was a “Russian Hack”.
We are in the deep, deep water of global machinations here.
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IF Anonymous actually does have a Mossad video of Clinton with a 13 year old black girl and they release it, we WILL see the internet break down.
Can’t let those pesky prudes in flyover country get wind of this now, can we?
I was having problems with eBay earlier, and it’s still pretty glitchy.
Thanks - that’s interesting.
Can anyone opine as to why those particular regions are the ones affected? Some thing in common?
;)
I wish the Mossad would snatch Assange.
It’s a government test for the “big event” yet to come.
John has a long mustache...the chair is by the door.
The Rats had best pray the web tubes work flawlessly on November 8.
You have to understand how the internet works. There was a coordinated attack on DNS providers which are like the telephone directory that tells your computer where to find these websites. If these go down they fail over, however this attack was choking their available resources to serve customers. in actuality these websites were never affected it was just your computers ability to lookup how to get to them.
It’s a DDOS attack on DynDns, which provides DNS services for a ton of sites. I use it myself because I got tired of keeping my own DNS running in the face of waves of reflection attacks, mostly from China. They do it to shout down political sites that the don’t like (I think).
It was just too much of a hastle to change my firewall filters every day. I suspect a lot of big sites outsourced to DynDns for the similar reasons and to save money on IT personnel.
These sites maintain (or should) a fallback DNS server on site with a short TTL as a backup - optionally turned off until it was needed - with its NS record sorted last.
This is the reason for the slowness. Your DNS query has to walk through NS1, NS2, NS3 (which are all down) until it reaches to fallback server NS4. This can take several seconds or a minute depending on your ISP’s DNS forwarder timeout settings.
My net has been going out a couple times a day for about a week. Never used to.
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