yahoo outage
While the company acknowledged an early morning outage Wednesday, some Yahoo user reports indicated that services were also out on Tuesday night in some areas. [1]
A three-hour outage today on Yahoo was the result of a malicious attack intentionally aimed at disabling the service, according to company executives. [2]
Most of the Yahoo network was unreachable for three hours on Monday as the company weathered what it described as a widespread malicious attack on its Web sites. [3]
But Yahoo’s outage today shows that even Internet giants with ostensibly enormous networking resources are not immune from such attacks. [2]
Keynote Systems, an Internet monitoring firm, said the Yahoo outage began between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m. [3]
Investors’ lack of concern about the Yahoo! outage shows that attitudes have changed since the electronic auction site eBay (EBAY: Research, Estimates) experienced outages for two days last July and one day last August. [4]
An engineer at another company that receives Internet access from the same provider, Global Center, told Wired News the outage was due to misconfigured equipment. [3]
Even worse, sites impacted by the lengthy service outage will likely suffer the brunt of consumer anger, rather than Yahoo. [5]
Sluggish to get into mail, and I have been unable to log in to Messenger at all this morning,” said Joe Beaulaurier, the blogger for “The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog,” which is part of the Weblogs, Inc. Network. [1]
According to one Internet performance measurement firm, Keynote Systems, the problem primarily affected Yahoo users in the United States. [2]
Claim: Yahoo! servers will be down between 15 March and 17 March 2003. [6]
The company’s stock actually rose 1/2 today to close at 354, apparently showing that investors have come to accept temporary outages as a fact of life on the Internet, as they are with almost every other means of communication. [4]
Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo’s merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology. [...] The heaviest shopping tends to take place much closer to the middle of December than the Monday after Thanksgiving. [5]
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - The Internet portal Yahoo! Inc., the world’s largest Web site, went down for several hours Monday, apparently because of an outside attack that flooded the site with fake traffic. [4]
Sources:
[1] Yahoo outages frustrate some users - CNET News.com (news.cnet.com/
[2] Outage a deliberate attack, Yahoo says - CNET News (news.cnet.com/2100-1023-236594.html)
[3] Routers Blamed for Yahoo Outage (www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/
[4] Yahoo down but not out - Feb. 7, 2000 (money.cnn.com/2000/02/07/
[5] Yahoo Merchants Toasted By Monday Outage | WebProNews (webpronews.com/topnews/…
[6] snopes.com: Yahoo! Outage (www.snopes.com/computer/internet/