Re: Inevitable Consequences--Verisign

[Haesu <haesu () towardex com>]

I am not surprised at all. If VeriSign took their efforts and time to show us
some purported "recommendations" to abide to their new service, they better at
least deal with DoS pretty fast before more people get uptight.

-hc

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 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