Re: (FT,SG)Commercial break.....

No. One of the largest DDOS attacks ever was in progress. So most of
the web was technically still up, but the DNS servers were swamped.

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/22/2332233.shtml?tid=99

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html

Cheers
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:12  AM, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au
wrote:

> G'day,
>
>> As at 0900 23/10 GNT your site seems to be down, does that mean it
got
>> crushed in the rush!!
>
> I think it may actually be a net problem, half the net's down
according 
> to
> the Aussie view of things as I write this (may be a cable got cut
> somewhere).
>
> Cheers
>
> Beth
>