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April 30th, 2008, 1:34 PM
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gee what was that??
the sites are back up but my server went down so i came to both surpasshosting and surmunity and they were down too? i do know my server was unavailable to 4 or 5 of my clients they sure like msn to inform me..lol ... i even went to see if some disaster hit florida on cnn when i couldnt bring anything up from surpass
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April 30th, 2008, 1:35 PM
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I had the same thing, no access to any of my domains or anything related to surpasshosting.com for about 10 minutes.
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April 30th, 2008, 1:39 PM
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This was caused by a DDoS attack against our network. It appears that our NOC admins have it under control at this point...
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April 30th, 2008, 1:39 PM
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So it isn't just me then? I've been unable to access anything on my server for the past 1.5-2 hours or so, and DECC (though the help desk and other surpasshosting.com things still work)/Surmunity as well. Though Surmunity's working now, but not DECC or my server...
EDIT: Ah, I see. EDIT AGAIN: Everything seems to be okay now. Last edited by SaSxorz; April 30th, 2008 at 1:42 PM. |
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April 30th, 2008, 1:54 PM
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I'm back up. I was officially down from 1:03 EST - 1:42EST +/- 5 minutes. Could someone please describe how the DDOS attacks work, and why they cause so much disruption. It bothers me some that I don't quite understand the mechanics of how an attack like this can knock out an entire datacenter. Thanks!
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April 30th, 2008, 1:55 PM
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Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is your best friend.  In short though, it's a flood of requests that renders a server/whatever inoperable. |
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April 30th, 2008, 1:59 PM
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I've read what denial of service attacks are (on wikipedia and other sources). I get the general idea that the servers are flooded with requests, and it brings everything to a screeching halt. However, if memory serves that same article noted that DDOS attacks aren't very destructive anymore (in their initial form, anyway). So my [more refined] question is how do these type of attacks manage to get through 'security' and cause 40 minutes of downtime?
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