Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by JonathanBouman » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by asdojasdosadsa » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:16 PM UTC

I'm not the best at interpreting this map[0] but seems that something is going on?

[0] http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&...

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by DmenshunlAnlsis » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

Reddit is up as of this writing, although GNU.org is down.

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by gjvc » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

defcon week

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by JonathanBouman » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

DmenshunlAnlsis wrote: post #3

Reddit is up as of this writing, although GNU.org is down.

Pretty unstable here, it loads but all the user specific pages return 'error code: 503'

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by user5994461 » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

asdojasdosadsa wrote: post #2

I'm not the best at interpreting this map[0] but seems that something is going on? [0] http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&...

Looks like an ongoing DNS reflection attack from all over the world to the US.

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by digi_owl » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #4

defcon week

That, and various incidents on twitter etc over the years makes me really question the professionalism of _sec...

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by digi_owl » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

JonathanBouman wrote: post #5

DmenshunlAnlsis wrote: post #3

Reddit is up as of this writing, although GNU.org is down.

Pretty unstable here, it loads but all the user specific pages return 'error code: 503'

And their status page shows all green...

https://reddit.statuspage.io/

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by fibers » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #4

defcon week

But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?

Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

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Post by stephengillie » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

fibers wrote: post #9

gjvc wrote: post #4

defcon week

But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?

Everyone has to start somewhere - maybe some script kiddies are at their first Defcon and saw an easy target?