When the Entire Internet Seems to Break At Once

http://www.theatlantic.com ^ | Oct 21 2016 | Robinson Meyer and Adrienne Lafrance

[Southnsoul]

Twitter is still out here on the East Coast as of 1:20 PM.

[Bon of Babble]

I’ve been trying to donate to Freep since around 9 AM this morning (PST) and keep getting the message from PayPal that “This site can’t be reached.”

I told Jim I’d try again when I get home @ 3 PM.

Don’t forget to donate to the Freepathon!!

[butlerweave]

Free Republic is a lot faster today

[Freedom56v2]

Bump!

[BenLurkin]

ping

while we still can

[Gideon7]

Oh and that’s per query. A lot of web sites today are pretty complex and fetch a lot of queries for image subdirs (images.foo.com), script subdirs (scripts.foo.com), CDNs, etc. So yeah it can take a long time. Just be patient and the web page should eventually appear.

[Freedom56v2]

doubt it

[Freedom56v2]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3483157/posts?page=1

(Drudge) Major internet problems reported after cyberattack

[x_plus_one]

Obama and the main control media can’t fool all the people all the time.

[LonePalm]

Twitter is still down.

Thank God for small favors.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[NFHale]

Test run, it would seem...

[georgiegirl]

Does this thread make sense with what’s going on?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3483212/posts

[BenLurkin]

Mote likely the DNC

[Gideon7]

ICANN is just a bureaucratic administrative body. They merely set long term policy for TLDs. This attack has nothing to do with them.

[Chgogal]

Remember this? Why would Russia wait until they are attacked?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia-n666636

[Vermont Lt]

I was thinking that as well. Either a test run, or a demonstration.

My guess is that they really, really, really want to close Assange down. And fast.

[Fitzy_888]

Years ago I worked for an engineering consultant firm, a crew was in painting the office price meal. One of the cubicals was the dedicated home to the server. The crew put down plastic, it was draped over the server, which caused the server to overheat and slow to a crawl. The president of the company, who has a hot head, was screaming at the painters. No permanent damage though.

[Beowulf9]

The article points out that Cruz’s big worry is that the Dns servers would be shut down. The writer of the article, which is left wing, feels that is nonsense. I put up the article in regards to this mornings shut down and the connection to DNS servers to show it is not.

[Mad Dawgg]

Rot Ro Relroy this could be

BenLurkin has invoked the list!

So once again you all should:

For when the INTERNET goes down and quits working completely (Sorta like Congress only funner)

I've created a FRee Republic Emergency Ping list (as suggested by mitch5501 ) called:

The "The INTERNET isn't working" ping list:

IF you would like "ON' or "OFF the list FReep Mail me OR ping me in a thread with your request. This will not be a High Volume Ping list (Well at least we hope the INTERNET doesn't quit working frequently)

"So let it be written. So let it be done."

The List: mitch5501; Rocky; Pajamajan; Mad Dawgg; hoosiermama; SE Mom; null and void; BenLurkin; bigheadfred; redhead; berdie; Old Sarge; wyokostur; GeronL; TheOldLady; ducttape45; Gefn; IYellAtMyTV; Redcitizen; LonePalm; garandgal; Fiddlstix; bt_dooftlook; liberalh8ter; Mercier; Truth29; PA Engineer; citizen; bleach; Greetings_Puny_Humans; TangoLimaSierra; Chickensoup; rexiesmom; FourtySeven; RinaseaofDs; RikaStrom; ozarkgirl; Grimmy; Jet Jaguar; silverleaf; tcrlaf; Red Badger; mumblypeg; LadyBuck; Bookwoman; RinaseaofDs; aragorn; LucyT; sportutegrl

And for those of you asking how the ping list works when the internet goes dark:

[Gideon7]

Jim Robinson runs a really funky DNS custom setup with multiple redirects. It looks homebrew, probably because FR has been DDOSed before (and probably lots of times).

This is probably why FR us running just fine right now. I’m pretty impressed with what he did.