Today's Internet DNS outage and me

This morning, I read about the DDoS attack on DYN as an outside observer. It was interesting, and scary for what it portends about the future, but it didn't affect me directly.

Then, in the early afternoon, someone in my neighborhood could not access a website that they needed for work. The browser error was less than helpful, but something about resolving DNS. The reports this morning said that things were back to normal, so my initial reaction was to just wait a bit.

By mid-afternoon however, the problem persisted. I tried another web browser, with no luck. Hoping to clear the operating system DNS cache, the computer was rebooted, to no avail.

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