Ask HN: Is WhatsApp down?

Posted by Cyph0n on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been looking online, but can't seem to find anything. Is it being targeted by a DDoS?

Edit: Looks like DYN is being DDoSed. It's the DNS for many sites including Twitter, GH, Reddit, and WhatsApp.

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Re:Ask HN: Is WhatsApp down? by sashk on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:33PM (#12761832)

They aren't down -- but DNS they use seems to be down at the moment.

for me github, twitter, seamless and many other down. looks like it's dyndns related, as it doesn't respond.

Google's public DNS isn't responding to them, but opendns (208.67.222.222) helps here.

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Re:Ask HN: Is WhatsApp down? by 1mrankhan on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:30PM (#12761811)

as of now twitter, github, whatsapp - web down.

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Re:Ask HN: Is WhatsApp down? by Cyph0n on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:32PM (#12761826)

Yep, just saw another submission for Twitter and GH. This seems like it's huge.

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Re:Ask HN: Is WhatsApp down? by Raed667 on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:45PM (#12762726)

Netflix as well

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