OpenDNS problems
Some of you have had difficulty signing in to Simplify this morning, so I wanted to give you a brief explanation of what happened. To find any location on the internet, our servers included, your computer relies on a type of location service called DNS. One DNS provider, OpenDNS, had extended problems today as a result of a denial of service attack on Softlayer and their OpenDNS caching architecture. As the problem took down websites like Techmeme too, Techcrunch has all the details.