GitHub is getting DDoSed again • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by codexon » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 12:10 AM UTC

martinced wrote: post #22

If several countries, distribute across various continents, have managed to put in place three-strikes and six-strikes (not that I think it's good), it means that the one and foremost knee-jerking argument saying "You can't do anything about DDoS because: [X] It's technically not realist" is gone. Technically now ISPs could throttle the bandwith (or even disallow net access) to zombies boxen used in DDoS attacks in a…

Most DDoS attacks are not home connections with extremely limited upload speeds anymore. They are now reflected DNS attacks coming from legitimate DNS servers.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by codexon » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 12:36 AM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #8

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?

Nowadays it's so easy to execute a large scale ddos that it's just as likely to be an attention starved teenager as it is a group with an agenda. Github is big enough that it's on peoples radars as "that popular website lots of people rely on", the company I work for has websites smaller than Github and we're indiscriminately ddosed every couple of days.

I wish hosts would stop blaming their customers for these attacks.

Every time someone gets ddosed and complains on hosting forums, the #1 reaction is "who did you piss off?".

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by esrauch » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 1:20 AM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #60

There are people who suggest that a DDoS is just a 'digital sit in', a legitimate way for someone to air a grievance, if they think the targets (or world) haven't paid them enough attention. This view makes DDoS seem more normal or even romantic/heroic, and spreads the tools/know-how more widely. So, pulling off a DDoS becomes a more plausible and attractive aspiration, for a larger set of surly people with marginal…

The primary association most Americans have with sit ins is the civil rights movement, but it seems likely that almost all cases where someone refuses to leave an establishment after being asked to leave by the manager the person is being an asshole, exactly like the average DDoS'er.

The default assumption when you see someone unwilling to leave a bar is not that they are noble, and neither should it be the default assumption for a DDoS. That said, I don't think it is reasonable to say no DDoS could ever be noble, just that the vast majority of the time it is just someone being an asshole.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by brdrak » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 3:04 AM UTC

imjared wrote: post #51

alexvr wrote: post #48

Good plan. When a site is DDoSed, encourage thousands of HN viewers to check it out :P

Going to go out on a limb here and say that status.github.com is probably hosted somewhere other than github.com

I was curious about that too. Looks like status.github.com is hosted on AWS, whereas github.com on Rackspace.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by X4 » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 12:53 PM UTC

kaoD wrote: post #28

X4 wrote: post #16

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.

If it's open, I can scrape it.

Not buying it.