Earlier this evening/morning OpenDNS suffered a huge DDoS (distributed denial of service attack). They had to pull down there website because of emergency maintenance. OpenDNS also suffered from mild DNS outages (due to a router not responding). The issue overall is minor.

No threats to end users where ever seen, just outages. Some twitter Users fled to Google DNS during the outage.

“Starting at 10:15 PM PDT tonight all of our global locations suffered a significant denial of service attack. All sites withstood the attack with the exception of Palo Alto, which had sporadic reachability issues lasting for almost 30 minutes. This interruption took our engineers longer to diagnose than it normally would have due to some difficulty removing some routing advertisements between our routers and one of our ISPs. We’re still investigating the cause of this routing anomaly. By 10:45 PM PDT, all DNS traffic was routed to alternate locations, including Los Angeles and Seattle, which were online serving traffic the entire time.”

Read more here at the OpenDNS system blog.

Hulu has since pulled a post on its new player update. While explaining the new player they stabbed at HTML5 for “not meeting there needs”. I find that to be a lie. HTML5 could easily meet there needs (40% of web users), and fall back on their normal browser.

Like one of Engadget’s commenters said “It doesn’t meet their DRM needs”. I find that to be true. The same reason why Hulu is not available outside the USA (Grr), or on any mobile device, is the reason they can’t roll out HTML5. The company’s that have their shows on Hulu don’t like that HTML5 doesn’t support there DRM/Ad needs.

HTML5 would introduce support for more devices…but nope. It’s not Hulu’s fault…its the broadcasters. They control everything. So if you want to rage at someone rage at CBS, Time Warner, ABC, Fox, etc. Oh well maybe later on.

Today is not the best day in Twitter land. On Twitter you may notice you have 0 followers. That’s expected (per a blog post). It will soon be fixed.

However in 1 hour that a bug was on Twitter that forced users to follow you…well all hell broke loose. Twitter is rolling back all the abuse, so that’s why you have 0 followers.

I use hootsuite so I completely missed all this mayhem, which is good I guess. I could see how people forcing other people to follow them, being a major issue.

Twitter hasn’t banned anyone over this either, which means it was just that widespread.