Dyn DDoS Attack Causes Outages, Continues to Create Problems
📅 - Friday morning, Dyn Inc., a well-known Domain Name Server, announced it was monitoring a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack.
Across the Eastern U.S. on Friday, Internet service had been disrupted for many people.
Dyn posted a message on it's website explaining the situation, “Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Our engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.”
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