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No, It’s Not Just You. The Internet Is Having Problems. No, It’s Not Just You. The Internet Was Having Problems.
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Major websites were inaccessible to some users in the United States on Friday morning, and a major domain host reported a large distributed-denial-of-service attack on its servers. Major websites were temporarily inaccessible to some users in the United States on Friday morning, and a major domain host reported a large distributed-denial-of-service attack on its servers.
Users reported problems with Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, Etsy, Soundcloud, The New York Times and others. Users reported problems with Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, Etsy, SoundCloud, The New York Times and others.
Dyn, a domain name system host that monitors and reroutes internet traffic, said it began experiencing an attack just after 7 a.m. Friday that was affecting mostly users on the East Coast. Dyn, a domain name system host that monitors and reroutes internet traffic, said it began experiencing an attack just after 7 a.m. Friday that affected mostly users on the East Coast. Around 9:30 a.m., it said in a statement that service had been “restored to normal.”
“Our engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue,” it said in a statement on its site.