“We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
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“We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
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#2>Update - We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack which is being spread across hundreds of different IP addresses in rapid succession, making mitigation extremely difficult. We are currently working with our upstreams to implement more complete mitigation.
That's pretty harsh.
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#33½ hours already. Distributed from and to many IP addresses. Seems like an attack on them rather than on specific users. :/
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#4I've done some googling before asking here: Can anybody explain why Linode is so often targeted like this? We moved Cronitor off Linode in spring 2015. During the christmas holiday when they suffered a 2 week DDOS I thought of the family time I'd be missing that year as we did a crash migration to AWS had we not migrated when we did. I have to imagine this has been horrible for their business.
I would use Linode if I needed to lease computational power, because it is still a great value vs AWS, but I could not run a high availability service there. It would feel like professional malpractice at this point.
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#5OK, who hosts at Linode and is very popular/pisses people off? 4chan? 9gag? Reddit? Something Awful?
Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
#6I've done some googling before asking here: Can anybody explain why Linode is so often targeted like this? We moved Cronitor off Linode in spring 2015. During the christmas holiday when they suffered a 2 week DDOS I thought of the family time I'd be missing that year as we did a crash migration to AWS had we not migrated when we did. I have to imagine this has been horrible for their business. I would use Linode if I…
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Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
#7OK, who hosts at Linode and is very popular/pisses people off? 4chan? 9gag? Reddit? Something Awful?
I think 9gag used to be on linode? I'm pretty sure none of the rest are though.
Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
#8I've done some googling before asking here: Can anybody explain why Linode is so often targeted like this? We moved Cronitor off Linode in spring 2015. During the christmas holiday when they suffered a 2 week DDOS I thought of the family time I'd be missing that year as we did a crash migration to AWS had we not migrated when we did. I have to imagine this has been horrible for their business. I would use Linode if I…
Ask HN: Who is behind the Linode DDOS attacks?
Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
#9I've done some googling before asking here: Can anybody explain why Linode is so often targeted like this? We moved Cronitor off Linode in spring 2015. During the christmas holiday when they suffered a 2 week DDOS I thought of the family time I'd be missing that year as we did a crash migration to AWS had we not migrated when we did. I have to imagine this has been horrible for their business. I would use Linode if I…
Ask HN: Who is behind the Linode DDOS attacks? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797795
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797827
Found the culprit.
Re: “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
#10>Update - We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack which is being spread across hundreds of different IP addresses in rapid succession, making mitigation extremely difficult. We are currently working with our upstreams to implement more complete mitigation. That's pretty harsh.
Agreed, I hope they're able to get back online soon.