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Is Yahoo involved in a DoS Attack?

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by vicki.laidlaw

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Hi all,

My company cannot access Yahoo at all. This has been going on for nearly an hour. All other major Internet servers checked (MSN, ZDNet, Hotmail, Google, etc.) are functional and accessible. Is anyone else having this problem right now? Might this be a denial of service (DoS) attack?

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by vicki.laidlaw

Thanks, it's up now, but service was out at this location for nearly two hours, even though other Internet sites were functional. Weird....

by lordinfidel

that's the way the net works.

All because you can get to one site, does not mean you can get to all of them.

And all because you can't get to one site, does not mean that it is not functioning.

Routing is a very fickle beast.

My advice is the next time you can not get to a site, is to do a trace to it. When the time outs occur is typically where your problem lies.

Then once you see where the time outs are occuring. You can go to http://www.traceroute.org/ , find a looking glasssite on another carrier, and try to trace to the site.

There is also ISP status sites out there. I don't have the url handy, but I will post it.

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