DNS provider decked by DDoS dastards
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. The motives for the attack, much less its perpetrators, remain unclear.
