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Old Nov 24, 2008 | 12:07 pm
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shoggoth
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germany, near FRA (1h)
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FlightMemory problems since Friday: German DNS servers were under attack

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
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