Apple site was down...

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Didn't see this anywhere else so here it goes....

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5234500.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
A domain name outage Tuesday morning left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible, according to a Web research company.

For just more than two hours--from 5:30 to 7:45 a.m. PDT--many of the world's most popular sites suffered from widespread outages, according to Keynote Systems, which compiles statistics related to Web surfing. On a typical day, the top 40 sites measured by Keynote rarely dip below 99 percent availability. On Tuesday, however, Keynote saw availability drop to 81 percent. ...
 
So that does not mean the apple site was down... It just means DNS did not work for some folks... which would affect all sites and not just the ones mentioned.
 
Ok, maybe it wasn't down but it was not available to quite A LOT of people. That hacker better fun fast as I heard the FBI was now looking into it.
 
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