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Date: Wed Nov 17 2010 - 05:01:11 CST

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/ddos_on_dns_firm/

By John Leyden
The Register
16th November 2010

DNS provider sitelutions was floored by a particularly severe denial of
service on Tuesday.

The Virginia-based internet services firm confirmed its site was offline
as the result of a "multi-gigabit" denial of service attack via an
update to its Twitter feed.

"Websites and data still safe, though there are still occasional DNS
lookup issues that we are working on due to the massive attack," it
said.

sitelutions was able to restore its website by Tuesday afternoon
following an outage of around six hours earlier in the day.

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