FC: Yahoo down for three hours, blames hacker DOS attack

[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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