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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @11:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @11:28AM (#420830)

    Given your status as emergency reserve sysop, [soylentnews.org] I guess you could knock SN off the net using a single host — the one you'd use to log in and shut the servers down. ;-)

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