Derek Zeanah
New member
damn - I'm posting most of the tech support threads here.
THR is currently down. We were suffering from a DOS attack that was (mostly) due to a compromised server in Chicago. We were seeing inbound traffic of ~50 Mbits/second at the firewall (normal is about 0.768 Mbits) which was enough to swamp the machine. Rebooting the firewall got us back in, and I reconfigured the firewall a bit so it wouldn't run out of memory (my guess as to what caused the actual outage).
We were still seeing the traffic, and rather than pay for it I had my network provider intervene. THR has been 'null-routed' until the attacks stop, which pretty much means "you can't get there from here." The company that owns the compromised host has a disconnected abuse telephone line, and their web server is reporting errors, so they'll be tough to reach.
Once the attack dies, THR will come back to life.
(As an aside, I'm paying for a 10 Mbit link, but I apparently have significantly better than that.)
THR is currently down. We were suffering from a DOS attack that was (mostly) due to a compromised server in Chicago. We were seeing inbound traffic of ~50 Mbits/second at the firewall (normal is about 0.768 Mbits) which was enough to swamp the machine. Rebooting the firewall got us back in, and I reconfigured the firewall a bit so it wouldn't run out of memory (my guess as to what caused the actual outage).
We were still seeing the traffic, and rather than pay for it I had my network provider intervene. THR has been 'null-routed' until the attacks stop, which pretty much means "you can't get there from here." The company that owns the compromised host has a disconnected abuse telephone line, and their web server is reporting errors, so they'll be tough to reach.
Once the attack dies, THR will come back to life.
(As an aside, I'm paying for a 10 Mbit link, but I apparently have significantly better than that.)