Re: Inevitable Consequences--Verisign

[Declan McCullagh <lists () politechbot com>]

Repeated (though informal) testing over the last 90 minutes showed
that at one point, about one-third of attempted HTTP connections to
sitefinder took over one minute to complete or, in a few cases, failed
entirely.

Now only about one of every 5 or 10 connections is displaying that
behavior.

-Declan


On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:22:49PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Curt Akin wrote:
>
> > This morning, more often than not, nonexistent domain name access via
> > http is returning timeouts. Overload? DoS? It appears, for whatever
> > reason, that Verisign's scheme is not impervious to the inevitable
> > consequences of arrogant behavior.
> >
> >  
> The service seems to have experienced about 30 minute downtime about an 
> hour ago.
>
> On average, the redirect servers has responded in less than four seconds 
> in the last
> 36 hours. This performance is far from what any commercial enterprise 
> should provide.
>
> Performance seems to be worst from 9 UTC to 22 UTC, with best hours to
> access yourreallyreallynonexistentdomain.com are 1 to 6 UTC.
>
> Pete