
Hosting provider
SoftLayer was taken down this morning from a
DDOS attack, and several well known websites, including
TechMeme and
TwitPic, went down with it.
The problem at SoftLayer was resolved, but some users of
OpenDNS, a DNS service provider that is becoming
more and more popular, still can't reach those websites. The reason? OpenDNS caches IP addresses for domain names on a user's computer. This speeds up web surfing considerably, and ha...