- Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience - Malcolm Muggeridge
Worldwide DNS downed
HOSTING SERVICE Worldwide DNS suffered a denial of service attack this evening that caused chaos for its thousands of customers.
One such customer is Incisive Media, owner of the INQUIRER.
Whether the incident has anything to to with the leaking of
Dan Kaminsky's fabled vulnerability remains unclear. We strongly suspect it
may be, however.
Worldwide DNS posted a statement on its web site confirming the attack. Its engineers are still working to resolve the problem.
The firm seems to be so busy we've been unable to get a full explanation of the events so far.
Incisive Media's techies had a late night but report that all is now well.
And INQ hacks around the world have been able to put away their John Bull printing kits, kept in reserve for just such emergencies.
Abnormal service will be resumed in the morning. ยต
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Proves that people will not listen to warnings untill someone gets hurt,

That DNS vulnerability was known about weeks ago, there was more than enough time to patch it considdering the patch was such a rapid and short deployment. 
Shame on those providers who didnt heed the warning
When the hell did this happen???
But that doesn't explain why TheINQ is ALWAYS SLOW... can this thing load faster? (Fudzilla is faster, and Wikipedia is the fastest of all web pages)
Fantastic headline there! Yup yup!
For me the inq is fast enough if it's working, but rather often it goes dead a while, unrelated to DNS attacks incidentally.
As for wikipedia, wikipedia has many mirrors all over the world, it's bound to be more stable than sites relying on one or two servers.

And about for the 'release' of the DNS vulnerability details, since there were already tests sites for the DNS weakness I'd say the nasty people could have already figured out the trick long before this release of details
Teragon are you ignorant or stupid?
DENIAL OF SERVIC = DOS
The dns vulnerability was about cache poisoning.
It could have been an old fashion ddos
Uninstall you internet explorer from Ms and get off the web