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DDoS attack brings a brief outage to AfterDawn

article published on 11 January, 2014

A part of the AfterDawn network was unreachable for 1-2 hours this morning (around 10:00 AM Eastern Time, 15:00 GMT). The outage was caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack towards our servers that saturated the downlink of our rack cabinet. Most of the English language sites were available again within an hour, but much of the international sites were unreachable for ... [ read the full article ]

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Mysttic
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11. January 2014 @ 16:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's sad, why would anyone bother to DDOS this site?
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11. January 2014 @ 17:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
was wondering the same thing.
Bozobub
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11. January 2014 @ 19:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Twelve-year-old script-kiddies need a reason..?
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12. January 2014 @ 07:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mysttic:
That's sad, why would anyone bother to DDOS this site?
maybe there jealous we make more sense than they do.

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13. January 2014 @ 05:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The DDoS could have been just a random thing. Various IP addresses at Leaseweb, our ISP, are frequently targetted for DDoS. We haven't investigated the sources of the DDoS, and it probably wouldn't do much good in any case to do so.


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