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DDoS of SN Underway [Updated]

posted by on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-fishing-for-me-this-morning dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Right, so there's currently a DDoS of our site specifically happening. Part of me is mildly annoyed, part of me is proud that we're worth DDoS-ing now. Since it's only slowing us down a bit and not actually shutting us down, I'm half tempted to just let them run their botnet time out. I suppose we should tweak the firewall a bit though. Sigh, I hate working on weekends.

Update: Okay, that appears to have mitigated it; the site's functional at a reasonable rate of responsiveness.

Update2: Attack's over for now. You may go about your business.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:39PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:39PM (#420684) Homepage Journal

    Oh, and to answer, we're hosted on Linode. Amazon might be better to better wither a DDoS (we've gone into degraded performance because someone blasted Linode's data centers off the net before), but we'd loosing IPv6 capability. We could also deploy a CDN or a LOT of other things before we'd run out of options to weather a storm.

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