Github is having a major service outage

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Post by kaws » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

Github is having a major service outage
status.github.com

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by mkrecny » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by bitdiffusion » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

mkrecny wrote: post #2

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

Two possibilities:

1. Boredom 2. Infamy (although nobody seems to claim responsibility for attacks like this so not sure how that can be a motivating factor - but who knows).

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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

mkrecny wrote: post #2

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

GitHub has competitors.

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by bradleyland » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

bitdiffusion wrote: post #3

mkrecny wrote: post #2

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

Two possibilities: 1. Boredom 2. Infamy (although nobody seems to claim responsibility for attacks like this so not sure how that can be a motivating factor - but who knows).

3. Extortion.

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by dkoch » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

I wonder how many people who use Github as part of their deployment work flow are impacted by outages like this. I know git is distributed, but I can imagine people with scripts that default to pulling from a github.com origin having to scramble to reconfigure.

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by ethomson » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

timmorgan wrote: post #4

mkrecny wrote: post #2

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

GitHub has competitors.

Which competitors in particular are you suggesting might be DDoS'ing them?

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by theboss » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

Can I ask here? Why do a lot of companies insist on keeping their code on GitHub?

It seems expensive and they have many service outages from DDoS attacks.

It seems like someone could set up their 10 different git servers for a fraction of the price and have greater up-time due to redundancy.

And securing your own isn't rocket science either...

What am I not seeing that is the big draw to github?

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by selectnull » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

timmorgan wrote: post #4

mkrecny wrote: post #2

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

GitHub has competitors.

An interesting idea and I have honest question: would anyone in the industry risk DDOS-ing a competitor?

I mean, sooner or later they would get caught, the news would spread like a wildfire, that would really be great PR for the attacked.

Any ideas on that? Does anyone have a case where that actually happened?

Re: Github is having a major service outage

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Post by bratsche » Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

This happens every other week. Does it really need to be posted on Hacker News every time? If you happen to be using Github at the time of the outage, you're going to notice. If you don't happen to be using Github at that time then it doesn't affect you.

This doesn't qualify for the news part of Hacker News.