DDoS Network Attack

[Chalex4]

You may have noticed that over the last 24 hours, accessing ATK has been a little hit and miss. This was due to a DDoS attack targeted against someone else within our datacentre facility.

The attack was of such magnitude that the external IP transit and peering links were saturated, causing instability. This was then magnified by the sheer volume of traffic being directed from the core routers towards their internal switching platform.

Network engineers have been working around the clock, and have now restored full service . However, as our server is still re-building the raid array, performance on ATK may be degraded/intermittent until this has completed later tonight.

[Calneon]

This was due to a DDoS attack targeted against someone else within our datacentre facility.

Yeah sure Chalex. Who have you made mad this time?

[Chalex4]

Hahaa that would actually make me laugh if someone spent their time targeting ATK.

Still probably not a good idea to annoy the 4Chan folks in /b/ though .