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Yes, you were having Internet problems this morning

By adamg on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 8:41am

Somebody's launched a distributed denial of service attack on Dyn, Inc., which provides DNS (basically site lookups) for a number of large providers, such as Twitter. Basically, the effect is if your phone burped and wouldn't let you access your contacts and you'd have to look up all the people you want to call by hand.

Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time.

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Comments

By Brad Burns on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 9:00am.

My whole commute on the Red Line this morning, I was searching for info about what was going on. Couldn't find anything - probably because Twitter itself was down. I get to work, log on to UHub, and the answer is here.

Thanks for all the excellent work you do, Adam.

By bulgingbuick on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 9:04am.

rigged..

By Eighthman on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 9:18am.

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By Gary C on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 9:25am.

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By anon on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 9:28am.

Why would Putin nuke our internet connection to keep us from reading Wikileaks if he wants us to read Wikileaks? Doesn't make sense.

By bulgingbuick on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 10:33am.

can. Thats the point the shirtless wonder wishes to make.

By Steeve on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 12:35pm.

Politifact.org was also down, so I can see some benefit to that if you're trying to get Trump elected.

By Arthur on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 9:49am.

Several sites were inaccessible. Boston Globe being one.

By Kaz on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 10:06am.

Waze wasn't a happy camper this morning, but fortunately traffic was what traffic was.

By Gary C on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 11:56am.

Just now I couldn't connect to Wikipedia.

By adamg on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 12:47pm.

From the Atlantic.

By CopleyScott17 on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 2:40pm.

Fearing a huge line I went with Dunkin, which was a big, gross mistake. DD iced coffee was vile.

By adamg on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 2:58pm.

Another attack in the afternoon.