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  • What Is DNS And Why Does It Make The Internet Break?

    What Is DNS And Why Does It Make The Internet Break?

    Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried out the attack and why, but regardless, the event served as a demonstration of how easily large swaths of the web can…