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Disney's Web sites hit with outage

Updated: Disney sites---ESPN, Disney.com and ABC News---were down across the board for about an hour or so on Wednesday.
Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor

Updated: Disney sites---ESPN, Disney.com and ABC News---were down across the board for about an hour or so on Wednesday.

It's unclear what happened, but there were multiple network failures. We tried multiple trace routes and monitoring services and they were all ugly.

A Disney spokeswoman said:

An issue at one our technical facilities caused intermittent outages this morning. Most sites are back up and we expect the issue to by fully resolved within an hour.

The sites appear to have returned to normal a little after 10 a.m. EST.

The failures via Host-tracker.com were everywhere:

And the look from Webmetrics...

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