Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

Al Jazeera's web site (www.aljazeera.net) has been intermittently
unavailable today.  Al Jazeera's spokesperson indicated it might be
hackers, but it could have just been lots of people trying to reach the
web site to see the pictures US television networks wouldn't broadcast,
overloading their servers.

That's the only "high visibility" problem I've heard of so far.  There
has been the normal background level of stuff on the net, cable cuts, web
defacements, perpetual ddos attacks, etc.