[47148] in North American Network Operators' Group
MSNBC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BrandonButterworth)
Fri Apr 26 03:20:32 2002
From: brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (BrandonButterworth)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:19:57 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <21897.200204260719@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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> According to Reuters, MSNBC web site was offline for two hours Thursday
> morning.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020425/wr_nm/tech_msnbc_outage_dc_1
"A spokesman for the site ... confirmed that the site had crashed for
two hours but said the causes were still being investigated."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/743492.asp
"The Web news site experienced a "SYN" attack at 7:30
a.m. ET that caused its content to be
unavailable to users, according to
MSNBC.com's technical production staff."
