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aos101 · 07-01-2007, 06:45 PM

The website was inaccessible just now for a few minutes because our hosts experienced a large scale DDOS attack affecting the entire datacenter. The DDOS attack is now being filtered and things seem to be back to normal.

Edit: Actually looking at the logs I think it was more like just under half an hour downtime.

akita_inu · 07-01-2007, 07:20 PM

I wondered what was happening .... !!!

kmount · 07-01-2007, 07:37 PM

I blamed my pc and started to kick it.

akita_inu · 07-01-2007, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaz

I blamed my pc and started to kick it.

..... aaah .... the technical approach .... !!!

kmount · 07-01-2007, 07:58 PM

But of course. The next step was to perform a control slap.

akita_inu · 07-01-2007, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaz

But of course. The next step was to perform a control slap.

.. a ctrl alt slap?

aos101 · 07-01-2007, 08:11 PM

According to the hosts:

Quote:

Initial investigating shows that some kind of attack crashed a core Juniper router into the datacenter. This was restarted within 5 to 10 minutes and filtering put in place.

I'm reading that as either an attack caused a core Juniper router to crash into the datacenter, or a core Juniper router into the datacenter was crashed by some kind of attack. I think they mean the latter

kmount · 07-01-2007, 08:14 PM

If the attack crashed a Juniper, I'd be quite worried :/

A ctrl alt slap is what one applies when the pc refuses to be cooperative.

kmount · 07-01-2007, 08:17 PM

Just read their forum post, good response times on their part eh Adam?

aos101 · 07-01-2007, 08:18 PM

Apparently they are talking to the Juniper 24/7 technical support team to see what happened:

http://www.unitedforums.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=9933

aos101 · 07-01-2007, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaz

Just read their forum post, good response times on their part eh Adam?

Yeah it was pretty good. I'd already started a thread in their forums 2 minutes before they posted that wondering what was happening. I think they underestimated how long UK servers were offline for though - we got no website hits for about 29 minutes.

kmount · 07-01-2007, 08:24 PM

At least they dealt with it quickly. Imagine if an f2s router crashed ;p

xyz · 07-01-2007, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaz

But of course. The next step was to perform a control slap.

Arh impact technology, you can't got wrong with that

07-01-2007, 06:45 PM	#1
aos101 Tiscali User Admin Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Kent Posts: 3,760 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Website unreachable just now The website was inaccessible just now for a few minutes because our hosts experienced a large scale DDOS attack affecting the entire datacenter. The DDOS attack is now being filtered and things seem to be back to normal. Edit: Actually looking at the logs I think it was more like just under half an hour downtime. __________________ Adam

07-01-2007, 07:20 PM	#2
akita_inu Tiscali User Admin Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Trentham Posts: 540 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I wondered what was happening .... !!! __________________ Rachel TiscaliUser team member

07-01-2007, 08:18 PM	#10
aos101 Tiscali User Admin Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Kent Posts: 3,760 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Apparently they are talking to the Juniper 24/7 technical support team to see what happened: http://www.unitedforums.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=9933 __________________ Adam

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07-01-2007, 07:37 PM	#3
kmount Forum Ninja Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 5,370 Thanks: 3 Thanked 20 Times in 19 Posts	I blamed my pc and started to kick it.

07-01-2007, 07:58 PM	#5
kmount Forum Ninja Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 5,370 Thanks: 3 Thanked 20 Times in 19 Posts	But of course. The next step was to perform a control slap.

07-01-2007, 08:14 PM	#8
kmount Forum Ninja Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 5,370 Thanks: 3 Thanked 20 Times in 19 Posts	If the attack crashed a Juniper, I'd be quite worried :/ A ctrl alt slap is what one applies when the pc refuses to be cooperative.

07-01-2007, 08:17 PM	#9
kmount Forum Ninja Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 5,370 Thanks: 3 Thanked 20 Times in 19 Posts	Just read their forum post, good response times on their part eh Adam?

07-01-2007, 08:24 PM	#12
kmount Forum Ninja Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 5,370 Thanks: 3 Thanked 20 Times in 19 Posts	At least they dealt with it quickly. Imagine if an f2s router crashed ;p

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