Showing posts with label Update on Last Night's DNS Disruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Update on Last Night's DNS Disruption. Show all posts
Friday, December 18, 2009
Update on Last Night's DNS Disruption
Domain Name System or DNS is an Internet protocol used to translate IP addresses into domain names so instead of typing in a long string of numbers we can enter urls like www.twitter.com into a browser to visit our favorite web sites. Last night, DNS settings for the Twitter web site were hijacked. From 9:46pm to 11pm PST, approximately 80% of Traffic to Twitter.com was redirected to other web
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