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FC: Yahoo down for three hours, blames hacker DOS attack
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:59:00 -0500
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.html Routers Blamed for Yahoo Outage by Declan McCullagh and Joanna Glasner 5:00 p.m. 7.Feb.2000 PST Most of the Yahoo network was unreachable for three hours on Monday as the company weathered what it described as a widespread malicious attack on its Web sites. Attackers reportedly laid siege to the Internet's second most popular destination at about 10:30 a.m. PST, snarling Yahoo's internal network and denying millions of visitors access to mail, schedules, and the directory service. An engineer at another company that receives Internet access from the same provider, Global Center, told Wired News the outage was due to misconfigured equipment. The person, who asked to remain anonymous, said that his firm also lost connectivity through Global Center's Sunnyvale, California, facility during the same time period due to apparent router problems, not hacker attacks. Details remained sketchy, with service provider Global Center blaming an intentional surge in traffic and Yahoo claiming a cadre of as-yet-unknown vandals fouled their system. No Web content appeared to have been altered or deleted. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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