Lets be journalists!

antodeco · 07-07-2009 11:14am #1

Ireland's largest ISP Eircom has confirmed that there was a domain name server (DNS) outage on its website last night after users complained they were being redirected to bogus sites, leading to speculation the company’s server has been hacked.
The company so far has not issued a statement on the extent of the outage or if indeed it was hacked. A statement is due shortly.
Users last night posted threads on Boards.ie that they had been experiencing serious DNS slowdowns and odd occurances such as when visiting Facebook or RTE.ie they would be redirected to sites showing pictures of scantily clad women or advertising pages.
Typically, users reported sites acting normally, but certain pages were refusing to load.The problem is understood to have first manifested itself at the weekend.
At the time of writing, an Eircom spokesman confirmed that it has had issues with its servers and that a statement would be forthcoming.

Source: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/13367/

WoollyRedHat · 07-07-2009 11:16am

You'd think they would apologize for the outage

AnonoBoy · 07-07-2009 11:24am

Wait a few days - they'll probably blames boards.ie for it somehow.

Go Eircom!

My name is URL · 07-07-2009 12:33pm

Theres also an article on Softpedia

Boards is cited there too

IsMiseConor · 07-07-2009 12:41pm

Boards.ie is in the Irish Indepantant like every week...
We are always qouted there.

Nodin · 07-07-2009 12:43pm

IsMiseConor wrote: »

Boards.ie is in the Irish Indepantant like every week...
We are always qouted there.

We add quality to their humdrum shite.

My name is URL · 07-07-2009 12:49pm

Yeah but the fact that Boards users broke this story before Eircom even acknowledged there was a problem is a joke, for such a big company.

This DNS issue has been going on for a week at least