A series of high-profile events over the last few weeks has highlighted the fact that the Domain Name System, so critical to the Internet's operation, is also one of its weakest links.
A domain name outage Tuesday morning that left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai.
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