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[Suff]

Seems to have gone away for me.

Probably a server error.

[Diflower]

Think it must have been Suff, I haven't had it at all today

[Kaz]

I'm glad it seems to have subsided for now, Mick has been flat out all day (new duties at work, holding the fort ie managing the team until he moves into his new role) and didn't manage to look at it after all, but can and will tomorrow sometime xxx

[Suff]

Must be guilty, clearly my pc abuses every site it goes on....

hopefully it will be in the logs Kaz and he can find the reason. Sadly these things happen.

[Kaz]

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[victor]

not that problem but last night i lost internet connections with some UK sites-unable to connect to proxy server-still had it this morning as did a friend

just went away on it's own late afternoon today

[Suff]

Whilst I can't actualy prove it, I did a bit of searching and I found that a DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack took down an Australian ISP DNS service over last weekend. Since then there have been a lot of outages or work related to DNS.

I suspect that what has happened is the attack has caused a review of DNS services world wide and that all the ISP's have been modifying and updating their DNS services.

Of course in any kind of work that is this wide ranging, you are likely to see people impacted. I understand why it's not publicised. If you have a vulnerability the goal is to fix it and move on before the world at large realises you are vulnerable.

This might also be why WM was seeing that the old DNS servers were still there and still reporting the wrong thing. They may be monitoring them to try and catch whoever is doing the attacks. Because attacks are done against lists of IP addresses, 12 nubmers in the format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. These lists are not created in a day and are shared and used for the attack.

[Kaz]

Mick looked at the access logs The last recorded 500 error was on the 9th at 2.41 am, the server was restarted at 2.50 am and no further errors since. Hopefully that is it now

[Kaz]

I found that a DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack took down an Australian ISP DNS service over last weekend.

Oh and Mick just said that might explain why Pepsi were having problems in Singapore Suff

[Suff]

Probably. Much of the cyber warfare that goes on does not make the light of day unless a lot of people are inconvenienced.

It's like the old Soviet cold war.