thecolorblue :
go daddy paid hosting servers have hundreds of websites on them each (thousands)???
how many would have to be hit in order to take down the # of sites that went offline?
also, since those servers are already over stressed with the # of sites on them how difficult would it be to overload them?
honest questions because I don't know
According to godaddy, they messed up their routing tables. It wouldn't be an issue of overloading servers. It's like this --
If router A is directed router B
And router B is directed to router C
Traffic will flow from A to C
Now let's same the entry became corrupted or (more likely) someone made an error.
If router A is directed to router B
And router B is directed to router A
Traffic will not flow from A to C
That's a simplified view, but that's what they're saying happened, and it's very plausible that's what did happen. It's more likely that a careless sys admin committed a bad routing entry than anonymous DDoSed godaddy.