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Re: GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

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Post by kamakazizuru »

Hovertruck wrote: post #20
pwelch wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter I don't think so but I feel like the majority of people visiting Hack News use Github in some way. Remote Repo, Deploying, Open Source tools that are hosted on Github. Maybe just me...

Wouldn't that just mean that they're bound to find out that Github is down without needing to see it on the front page of HN?

the might assume that its a problem on their end / on their ISP end.. Clearly enough people think its relevant for it to make its way onto the Homepage via upvotes ;)

Re: GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

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Post by kmfrk »

topbanana wrote: post #11

Do we really need to be notified every time GitHub or Twitter go down temporarily? It's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

Maybe it's a sign someone should look into an expanded notification system. I imagine someone could cook up an interesting IF case for IFTTT.

A good way for a company like GitHub to do it might be an RSS feed. That won't necessarily allow to define a status message type indicating the occurrence of the problem vs. the resolution - and the severity of the status problem.

Re: GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

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Post by IvyMike »

darkchasma wrote: post #29
topbanana wrote: post #11

Do we really need to be notified every time GitHub or Twitter go down temporarily? It's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

There is a reason there are controls to allow you to upvote, or downvote stories. If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it. If the story is in the top few, it's because people (that aren't you) are interested in knowing that github is getting attacked. EVERYTHING is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Edit: Heh, there are no downvotes on HN for stories. My bad.

> If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it.

You should try doing this because I don't think it actually exists.

I do understand why the hackernews crowd is interested in the status of github. What I don't understand is why those same people don't know about status.github.com and @githubstatus already.

If github is a critical piece of your infrastructure, add a couple of bookmarks and never be in the dark again.

Re: GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

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Post by IvyMike »

kmfrk wrote: post #52
topbanana wrote: post #11

Do we really need to be notified every time GitHub or Twitter go down temporarily? It's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

Maybe it's a sign someone should look into an expanded notification system. I imagine someone could cook up an interesting IF case for IFTTT. A good way for a company like GitHub to do it might be an RSS feed. That won't necessarily allow to define a status message type indicating the occurrence of the problem vs. the resolution - and the severity of the status problem.

The do have the linked website (status.github.com) and a twitter account (@githubstatus) which honestly seem pretty sufficient already.

Re: GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

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Post by andrewaylett »

BrenNG wrote: post #49
Proleps wrote: post #21

Why would someone DDoS GitHub? Is there some movement against GitHub? Or is it just for fun?

I manage newgrounds.com which gets quite a bit of traffic. We'll get what I think are DDoS attacks at least once a month. I can see our connection tracking stats go up to the millions and traffic spikes way up of course. I don't know WHY they do this, but last time it happened we got an abuse report saying that we were reported for port scanning from our main firewall / proxy box. Somehow they had reflected traffic o…

They wouldn't necessarily have received useful data from it. Consider what happens if you spoof the sender IP and port in the first packet of a TCP handshake: the recipient will send a response to the spoofed IP, making it look like they are the bad guys.

Someone isn't filtering Martians properly, or those spoofed packets would have been filtered before they reached you.

Re: GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

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Post by Proleps »

BrenNG wrote: post #49
Proleps wrote: post #21

Why would someone DDoS GitHub? Is there some movement against GitHub? Or is it just for fun?

I manage newgrounds.com which gets quite a bit of traffic. We'll get what I think are DDoS attacks at least once a month. I can see our connection tracking stats go up to the millions and traffic spikes way up of course. I don't know WHY they do this, but last time it happened we got an abuse report saying that we were reported for port scanning from our main firewall / proxy box. Somehow they had reflected traffic o…

> I don't know WHY they do this, but last time it happened we got an abuse report saying that we were reported for port scanning from our main firewall / proxy box. Somehow they had reflected traffic off our firewall / proxy to make it try to connect to a bunch of IPs on a known trojan port.

How did you solve it?

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