This explains why you weren't able to access Wikileaks during the course of the day. Wikileaks, the site which set the political
world on fire not so long ago by leaking a large number of diplomatic US cables has gone down after EveryDNS.net stopped fueling its DNS services to the secretive site.
Wikileaks became under DDOS (Distributed Denial of Source) attacks from multiple sources which forced EveryDNS folks into the decision as revealed in the official statement:
The services were terminated for violation of the provision which states that “Member shall not interfere with another Member’s use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity’s use and enjoyment of similar services.” The interference at issues arises from the fact that wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites.
As evident from the above statement, this step was taken with the primary goal of protecting the health of the other 500,000 websites getting DNS services from EveryDNS.net. I wonder if these DDOS attacks have a political backing or its just that the hackers have found a nice ground to play dirty. What's your stance on this?
[via SkepticGeek]
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