I think it's clear we're not hearing the whole story. On the second day of the outage I started wondering if maybe they were under some sort of attack, which I'm sure they would do their best to conceal. I figured it would be possible to build some sort of DoS "like" attack on the service (have a bunch of zombies make tons of connections, or bang on some other part of the server that they couldn't ignore without shutting out users). But I would have expected something like that to come out by now... So I'm pretty confused about what could have gone on over there.
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I think it's clear we're not hearing the whole story. On the second day of the outage I started wondering if maybe they were under some sort of attack, which I'm sure they would do their best to conceal. I figured it would be possible to build some sort of DoS "like" attack on the service (have a bunch of zombies make tons of connections, or bang on some other part of the server that they couldn't ignore without shutting out users). But I would have expected something like that to come out by now... So I'm pretty confused about what could have gone on over there.
Any one else have any ideas?