Ubuntu and Canonical infrastructure down for over 24 hours after botched vulnerability disclosure
By
Dan Goodin
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Summary
Ubuntu and Canonical's web infrastructure has been down for over 24 hours following a botched disclosure of a major vulnerability. The outage prevents the OS provider from communicating normally and delivering OS updates, though mirror sites remain functional. The disruption has hampered communication about a critical root-level vulnerability.
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· 4 pulledServers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since
Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers have consistently failed over the past 24 hours
Updates from mirror sites, however, have continued to work normally
Canonical's web infrast
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