[62926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inevitable Consequences--Verisign
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Sep 24 12:02:36 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:54:59 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh <lists@politechbot.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Curt Akin <Curt@Syllables.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F71A8B9.7090703@he.iki.fi>; from pete@he.iki.fi on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:22:49PM +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Repeated (though informal) testing over the last 90 minutes showed
that at one point, about one-third of attempted HTTP connections to
sitefinder took over one minute to complete or, in a few cases, failed
entirely.
Now only about one of every 5 or 10 connections is displaying that
behavior.
-Declan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:22:49PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> Curt Akin wrote:
>
> >This morning, more often than not, nonexistent domain name access via
> >http is returning timeouts. Overload? DoS? It appears, for whatever
> >reason, that Verisign's scheme is not impervious to the inevitable
> >consequences of arrogant behavior.
> >
> >
> >
> The service seems to have experienced about 30 minute downtime about an
> hour ago.
>
> On average, the redirect servers has responded in less than four seconds
> in the last
> 36 hours. This performance is far from what any commercial enterprise
> should provide.
>
> Performance seems to be worst from 9 UTC to 22 UTC, with best hours to
> access yourreallyreallynonexistentdomain.com are 1 to 6 UTC.
>
> Pete
>
>
