Was the Internet slow yesterday? Here is why

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Was the internet slow for you yesterday? It was for me. I had trouble reaching websites with my browser, and I figured my local DNS server was hosed.

It turns out that there was an attack on several of the Internet’s “root” servers – the most significant attack in almost five years.

Read more here:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020707-hackers-slow-internet-root-servers.html