Al Jazeera Web site suffers hits: ZDNet Australia: News & Tech: Security

ZDNet Australia was unable to reach the company’s two Domain Name Servers (DNS). Both machines were inaccessible, which is unlikely to result from too much “legitimate” traffic going to the site. DNS processing does not use a lot of system resources, and does not use a lot of traffic. Furthermore, the two name servers are hosted on different IP ranges, which is unlikely to spring from a run-of-the-mill system outage.