GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by twerquie » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #7

This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?

This happens to our team too.

Does anyone else find it ironic that Git is a distributed version control system, yet we rushed to centralize it and base our entire workflow around GitHub?

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by gunmetal » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

Github enterprise works great.

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by camus » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

gavingmiller wrote: post #5

I ask because I have no plausible answer: What does someone stand to gain by DDoSing github?

blackmailing ? "if you dont pay we'll DDOS you" or whatever. Given all these infected Windows computers all over the world ,it's not going to stop soon. That's the Microsoft legacy.

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by druiid » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

nonchalance wrote: post #17

jbrooksuk wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used GitLab by myself, it works really well and since V5 is super easy to get installed.

Is there a VM image like Github enterprise?

There is at least one Vagrant+puppet installer I know of but, well, uhhh... it's on Github and won't help you much at this point :P https://github.com/sbadia/puppet-gitlab

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by gwenbell » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #7

This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?

I use Gitboria, accessible through CJDNS.

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by fomb » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #7

This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?

Git's distributed right?

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by cheeseprocedure » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #7

This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?

Have you tried Jenkins as a CI server? While the core Gitlab product is quite nice, the feedback I've heard on the CI component is that it becomes problematic once builds become non-trivial (though to be fair, I've heard this mostly from Jenkins folks).

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by barkingcat » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #7

This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?

I always wonder if people prefer to use a centralised model that github seems to promote, or if people are not tooled up to take advantage of the distributed nature of git?

How technically hard is it to have an internal roundrobin git system that's synced up with the github repos needed, and then redirect to the internal git servers as needed when github goes down? I'm just wondering, no snark.

Github will go down by the nature of it being a web service. Web services aren't 100% by nature.

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by briandear » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:04 PM UTC

wavee wrote: post #3

So what?

The so what is that the majority of people on HN are developers and the majority of them use Github either personally or with their teams. So a major outage is costing potentially millions of dollars in potentially lost developer time. If you calculate an average hourly of just $50 and a developer loses 20 minutes. Then that outage costs $17 x the number of affected developers. That's a pretty big loss.

I'm reading HN right now because I can't manage pull requests and do code reviews of my distributed team's code. So I'm just spinning in my chair.

That's the so-what.

Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

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Post by gtaylor » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:04 PM UTC

camus wrote: post #23

gavingmiller wrote: post #5

I ask because I have no plausible answer: What does someone stand to gain by DDoSing github?

blackmailing ? "if you dont pay we'll DDOS you" or whatever. Given all these infected Windows computers all over the world ,it's not going to stop soon. That's the Microsoft legacy.

Am I crazy in thinking that there's zero chance Github would pay a "ransom"? Seems like they'd just work with their vendors/providers and mitigate it to avoid setting that precedent (making them even more vulnerable to future attempts).