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[AKavanaugh]

Been down for about 1.5 hours - not completely down, bout 90% packetloss according to the pings/traceroutes I've been running for the last 2 hours. Seems to be their cogent link, haven't tested their williams link.

Anybody else noticing it?

[Nessun]

yup williams is having same problems my guess is a rather hard and lasting dos attack as its not totally down

[AKavanaugh]

Yeah - it was DDoS, I got an Email from Aaron. My system reported 3.5 hours of downtime.

[Nessun]

should that was be is? as Im still not back.

[WII-Aaron]

It was a massive DDOS attack. It took us awhile to null route every single IP it was coming from.

The Williams side was not affected.

The attack was against a machine hosting an IRC server. Clearly against our policies. The customer has been terminated.

Aaron