Repeated (though informal) testing over the last 90 minutes showed that at one point, about one-third of attempted HTTP connections to sitefinder took over one minute to complete or, in a few cases, failed entirely.
Now only about one of every 5 or 10 connections is displaying that behavior. -Declan On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:22:49PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: > > Curt Akin wrote: > > >This morning, more often than not, nonexistent domain name access via > >http is returning timeouts. Overload? DoS? It appears, for whatever > >reason, that Verisign's scheme is not impervious to the inevitable > >consequences of arrogant behavior. > > > > > > > The service seems to have experienced about 30 minute downtime about an > hour ago. > > On average, the redirect servers has responded in less than four seconds > in the last > 36 hours. This performance is far from what any commercial enterprise > should provide. > > Performance seems to be worst from 9 UTC to 22 UTC, with best hours to > access yourreallyreallynonexistentdomain.com are 1 to 6 UTC. > > Pete > >