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Post-Mortem of the Jan-07 DDoS Attack
On Saturday, Jan 07 commencing at approximately 3:30pm EST (almost the exact moment I hit “publish” on a post about Save The Elephants, which we’ll repost later) we were hit with a multi-faceted DDoS Attack across three anycast constellations: dns1, dns2 and dns3. The attack was a combination SYN, ICMP and DNS Flood, in excess […]
[UPDATE]: Web Forwarding Slowness
Greetings all, Apologies for the delayed update regarding the webforwarding slowness. We have put some measures into place to account for the webforwarding slowness we have been experiencing. We will continue to monitor the situation over the next couple of days to see what else we can tweak to ensure the service is both speedy […]
Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack
Poor Les, is on Sunday support today and knows he’s facing a lot of email and calls. On his way in, asked me for some guidance on three specific questions he is expecting to face a lot today. Those questions are: How did something like this happen, and why did it affect me/my domains/my client’s […]
DoS Attack persists.
Also See: Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack [UPDATE: 12:54AM Jan 08] The attack traffic is still coming in fairly heavily. We are working on a couple of avenues of adjusting our defenses. [UPDATE: 2:33AM EST Jan 08] DNS1 is back online. dns2 has been mostly online througout most of this. […]
DOS Attack In Progress
We are currently experiencing an Denial of Service Attack against DNS1, DNS2 and DNS3 anycast strands. We are working on mitigation and will post updates as they become available. UPDATE 7:55 PM EST: Our mitigation techniques have brought the dns2.easydns.net anycast cluster back online, which should resolve slow response or timeout issues for end users. […]
