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the internet is having a bad day several major websites including Twitter Spotify Reddit and iheartradio experienced technical difficulties Friday with service appearing to be down or unresponsive the culprit was a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on a domain name system host that works behind the scenes to keep websites running smoothly the hosts din DNS announced that it was hit by an overwhelming amount of traffic from multiple sources it's an attack method usually employed to disable a website but in this case the attack was on a service that manages multiple websites and the outages were mostly felt by folks on the East Coast din DNS was able to restore services at about nine-thirty a.m. eastern time which was about two and a half hours after the attack began the host will not say which websites it works with but suddenly when its services were up and running so were many websites that were previously down earlier in the day so it's safe to say these outages were related that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update you