EdinWigan wrote:I think DDOS (Whatever that is)

bendix wrote:As much as you might like it to be the case, it is not 440 being attacked.

An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks
Posted about 4 hours ago. Dec 31, 2015 - 22:45 UTC
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I’d like to share some updates about the recent DDoS attacks.

I am one of several network engineers at Linode who have been working around the clock on DDoS mitigation. While things are stable, I would like to take a moment to publicly address the large and frequent DDoS attacks that we have been receiving since Christmas Day.

It has become evident in the past two days that a bad actor is purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode’s business. The following is a partial list of attacks we have received in no particular order:

- Multiple volumetric attacks simultaneously directed toward all of our authoritative nameservers, causing DNS hosting outages
- Multiple volumetric attacks simultaneously directed toward all of our public-facing websites, causing Linode Manager outages
- Layer 7 (“400 bad request”) attacks toward our web and application servers, causing Linode Manager outages
- Large volumetric attacks toward our colocation provider’s upstream interconnection points, overwhelming the router control planes and causing significant congestion/packet loss
- Large volumetric attacks toward Linode network infrastructure, overwhelming the router control planes and causing significant congestion/packet loss