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GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

#11

Post by irq »

badgar wrote: post #5

This is a pretty typical occurrence for a web service provider of their size. When is Github going to be able to not fail when targeted?

When they improve their netops chops. Their recent junior-level mistakes (like improper spanning tree settings) are an indication of the level of their skill in this area.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

#12

Post by eksith »

Are we sure it's a DDoS or is it some sort of massively distributed scrape of the repos? (Side-effect being DDoS regardless)

I'm starting to think this is some kind of grab for intellectual property; maybe even a targetting of private repos to somehow gain access.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

#14

Post by ghratch »

irq wrote: post #11
badgar wrote: post #5

This is a pretty typical occurrence for a web service provider of their size. When is Github going to be able to not fail when targeted?

When they improve their netops chops. Their recent junior-level mistakes (like improper spanning tree settings) are an indication of the level of their skill in this area.

I thought spanning trees were elected/discovered automatically by the routers themselves instead of being manually set up.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

#16

Post by X4 »

I think GitHub should add hardcore anti-scraping functionality. Even though I enjoy Opensource repositories, I wouldn't like some bot/govermnent or other evil to mess with all of our contributions to humanity in a way to defeat us.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

#17

Post by onemorepassword »

DigitalSea wrote: post #4

This happened back in October a couple of days in a row. Who the heck is targeting Github and why? I wonder if these attacks are related to the Chinese hacking attacks that have been publicised lately?

Any service hosting 3rd party content on even a moderate scale (say a few hundred various users) is likely to get DDoS-ed and never find out exactly why.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by babuskov »

Hm, just a couple of days later after another potential security exploit is published... maybe they did not plug all the holes, and someone is trying to clone all private repositories as soon as possible... hogging the servers in the process.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

#20

Post by Mahn »

badgar wrote: post #5

This is a pretty typical occurrence for a web service provider of their size. When is Github going to be able to not fail when targeted?

Not everybody has the Google-like resources to maintain thousands of fallback servers, and failing that often there isn't much one can do against a well distributed DDoS.
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