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yahoo outage: misconfiged routers or hackers?
There is a dangerous tendency to blame unknown forces for all
screwups. I'm ashamed to admit that I once was certain that hackers had
deleted some files that my .history files later proved were vanished by my
own clumsy mistyping (ouch). But this is much bigger. How often are
mysterious forces blamed for wrongs? Remind you of any one in 1984?
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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:59:00-0500
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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.
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