Hi!
Just a quick note to all who were wondering. Since Friday, many smaller sites like our FlightMemory/FlugStatistik were not available as one of the major provider of the German backbones, United Internet / InternetX, was under attack:
They claim 40.000 hosts were hit by a DDoS with a bandwith of 20 Gbit/s...
Since Monday morning, CET, the problems seem to be taken care of.
For more information on the background:
For those who speak German:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/DDoS-...meldung/119274
DDoS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Distributed_attack