BUSH & GOP SITES OUTAGE. DDOS ATTACKS?
eWeek online reported that Bush campaign and GOP sites experienced problems for several hours on Wednesday, October 20. It wasn't clear if the sites were experiencing system problems or if they were under a hack attack. Campaign and committee officials would only say they were investigating.
Because the sites were all GOP/Bush campaign related sites, people have speculated that it was a calculated Denial of Service attack, where the sites are overwhelmed with bogus traffic, making the sites inaccessible. However, analysts with Alertsite.com and Keynote Systems, which were monitoring the sites, said that their evidence suggests other problems. Many errors were Domain Name Service (DNS)-related problems, the translation of a site's name, such as www.google.com, to their actual numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address, google.
John Kerry's website and Democratic National Committee sites did not experience any problems.
Must be symptomatic.
Because the sites were all GOP/Bush campaign related sites, people have speculated that it was a calculated Denial of Service attack, where the sites are overwhelmed with bogus traffic, making the sites inaccessible. However, analysts with Alertsite.com and Keynote Systems, which were monitoring the sites, said that their evidence suggests other problems. Many errors were Domain Name Service (DNS)-related problems, the translation of a site's name, such as www.google.com, to their actual numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address, google.
John Kerry's website and Democratic National Committee sites did not experience any problems.
Must be symptomatic.
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