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‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure – iTnews
Walks back on earlier claims of denial-of-service attack.
A “massive messaging storm” overwhelmed a portion of Telstra’s domain name server infrastructure for several hours on Sunday, causing widespread internet problems for mostly east coast customers.
The problems started at around 10.30am AEST and were resolved by about 2.30pm.
Telstra initially said in a statement on Twitter that some of its DNS infrastructure was targeted by a “cyber attack, known as a denial of service (DoS)”.
“We’re blocking the malicious traffic attacking some of our service…
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