Ah: "The disruption was the result of an external attack on our domain name registrar" So no, not a defensive measure. Apparently the attack is not against the actual servers at nytimes at all, although I'd only give press-release-type one-sentence almost-non-technical explanations of things like this a 75% chance of giving the correct impression.
For what it's worth, I did a little looking and while nytimes.com does not resolve from UChicago, it does resolve for me at home (via Megapath's nameserver), does not resolve from another ISP in Chicago where I have an account, and does resolve from the data center in France I use. So spotty is the word.
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Date: 2013-08-28 01:28 pm (UTC)Good Question
Date: 2013-08-28 01:33 pm (UTC)http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/23273705/ny-times-site-inaccessible-twitter-problems-also
Re: Good Question
Date: 2013-08-28 01:40 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, I did a little looking and while nytimes.com does not resolve from UChicago, it does resolve for me at home (via Megapath's nameserver), does not resolve from another ISP in Chicago where I have an account, and does resolve from the data center in France I use. So spotty is the word.
Re: Good Question
Date: 2013-08-28 01:43 pm (UTC)Re: Good Question
Date: 2013-08-28 01:41 pm (UTC)