antispammers: are they vegetable or mineral?

[rone]

venividi pointed me towards this bit of information regarding yesterday's DDoS against LJ.  Needless to say, my contempt for Blue Security has reached a level reserved for people like Colin Powell and John McCain.

I interviewed at Six Apart today, but i signed an NDA, so anything i overheard or discussed today regarding the outage is not something i can repeat here.  The interview, however, went well, despite the lack of sleep of my interviewers (one of whom was lisa, if i may namedrop).  Sleep well tonight, guys!

Comments

[wisn.livejournal.com]

The sanitized executive summary (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/112766.html) was posted in lj_maintenance yesterday.

I didn't notice an outage, but I don't spend much time on lj either.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Ah. 4pm PDT is midnight here, so it's not surprising I didn't notice it l-)

[omarius.livejournal.com]

I noticed it. It seemed to be DNS-related (I haven't read any of rone's links yet), since I could get to LJ's IP but couldn't resolve any username-subdomains.