FBI Accidentally Pulls Plug On Own Servers
from the whoops dept
Apparently, the FBI’s website has been down for much of this morning, prompting fears that there had been some sort of malicious attack on their machines. However, the FBI claims that it’s their own mishandling of the servers that caused the problem. They’re trying to fix a misconfiguration in their domain name setup. They also go out of their way not to blame other technology vendors, such as Akamai who hosts some of their content. Basically, they’re saying that they screwed up their own servers and are working on getting it fixed.
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I know what happened ...
They were horsing around in the server room with nerf guns and tripped over a bunch of cat 5. Then when the call came down about the servers being down, they said it was a “DNS issue”, the brass nod like they understand what the guys are talking about and go back to their cocktails.
Been there, done that