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Originally Posted by gildor
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Intentional? Possibly...that happens all of the time as well. We usually see 5-10 cases a year that we can pin and prove on sabotage.
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This particular cut hit only Google services. Yahoo and other competitors services surged in use during the outage (which was short-lived, a few hours, before Google had a reroute).
It struck during primetime, after construction and work day hours were over.
Its being called a cyber terror attack on underground tech discussion forums for the aforementioned reasons and apparent specificity of the targeting. They resolved a list of available DNS against a list of competitors which came out looking very suspicious. This DNS node carried all the big dogs and didn't hurt a single small dog.
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