Looks like the Internet is suffering some major outages this morning, and as of yet, no one seems to know why. Google is reporting an error for many users (though it seems to be working for me) and apparently Yahoo, AltaVista, and Channel9 among other sites are having troubles. The thinking is that these sites are under a DNS attack. More information here, here, here and here.
Very rarely do the top 40 sites dip under 99% reliability, so this is interesting indeed!
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