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[Resolved] Brief Sluggishness due to DDoS Attack mitigated within minutes.

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 01:52 PM

Anybody who experienced some sluggishness just a short bit ago, it was due to a rather large DDoS attack hitting our network.

Here is a network graph of the event:
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As you can see in the sharp drop in traffic (the green spike) we mitigated the attack rather quickly and returned speed and service to normal.
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Posted 17 April 2011 - 02:25 PM

View PostMikeDVB, on 17 April 2011 - 01:52 PM, said:

Anybody who experienced some sluggishness just a short bit ago, it was due to a rather large DDoS attack hitting our network.

Here is a network graph of the event:
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As you can see in the sharp drop in traffic (the green spike) we mitigated the attack rather quickly and returned speed and service to normal.

Wow! That's huge. Do you have a 1,000 MB/s pipe to the internet?
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Posted 17 April 2011 - 02:39 PM

View PostBrian Stevenson, on 17 April 2011 - 02:25 PM, said:

Wow! That's huge. Do you have a 1,000 MB/s pipe to the internet?

We have up to 2,000 however we didn't fail over to the other 1GB as it wasn't required.
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