Posts Tagged ‘ DNS ’

What Really Killed Hulu

Oct 22nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Internet video site Hulu was nearly wiped off the face of the Internet yesterday, leading to widespread speculation about what had happened.
Some interesting theories included:

DanStasiewski: Hulu appears to be down. Should I get on the roof and wiggle the antenna?
JoeAnderson: Maybe bringing down Hulu.com will finally get me into the Evil League of Evil.
MattMusgrave: With [...]

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Skype Outage Highlights Value Of DNS, Risks Of Proprietary Identities

Aug 17th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting Services, Podcasting Software

The ongoing outage of the popular voice over IP application Skype highlights the risk of building a utility service like voice communication on a proprietary identity system. By creating a single point of failure, Skype effectively designed into their system an outage that is now affecting hundreds of millions of people.
Skype apologizes for the outage, [...]

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