After the Sony hacking was confirmed last week by the FBI to have been a targeted attack by North Korea, the White House said it was considering a “proportional response” to the cyber attack.

We may have an idea of what the “proportional response” was now. Even though the White House will not confirm anything about the outage.

"@DynResearch: After 24hrs of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for 2+ hours pic.twitter.com/mi2XIer9n2"

— Frances Townsend (@FranTownsend) December 22, 2014

Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, an Internet performance management company, said that North Korean Internet access first became unstable late Friday. The situation worsened over the weekend, and by Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline.

“Their networks are under duress,” Mr. Madory said. “This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,” he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load.

North Korea does very little commercial or government business over the Internet. The country officially has 1,024 Internet protocol addresses, though the actual number may be somewhat higher. By comparison, the United States has billions of addresses.

North Korea’s addresses are managed by Star Joint Venture, the state-run Internet provider, which routes many of those connections through China Unicom, China’s state-owned telecommunications company.

And the mockery ensued.

North Korea's Internet is totally offline. Kim Jung Un frantically looking for one of these. pic.twitter.com/AXi1heL4xC

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) December 22, 2014

Perhaps while North Korean is disconnected, Sony should stop contemplating releasing “The Interview” and just get it out there quickly. One simple upload to Reddit or BitTorrent would take care of that whole “when do we release it” problem. Know what I mean?