Inevitable Consequences--Verisign

Wed Sep 24 16:54:59 UTC 2003

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
> 
> 