DDoS attack on DNS
Several days ago, all our websites were unaccessible from time to time, this problem is fixed now. Here’s the quote from Joker.com, company that we use to register our domains and for DNS support:
A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) of unknown origin started Monday, 2006-03-20
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Upstream providers reported traffic peaks of about 1.3 Gigabits per second on a single line. This was enough to overload our lines, causing communication problems between our border routers and the upstream providers, and thereby interrupting all services for a short period on 2006-03-20
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We responded by adding more nameservers, some of them being hosted in external data centers with own DDoS protection. We reserved more bandwidth for Joker.com exlusively, and implemented automatic systems to react on certain incidents.
These measures seem to have helped, since the later attacks did not affect our systems as much as the first one. In the near future, we will do more to protect your domains and our business against such criminal activities.
We know Joker.com as a very reliable service for already 2 years of good work and recommend it highly.
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