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FS#6539 — Access to the hostings
Incident Report for Web Cloud
Resolved
The access to the shared hostings is currently perturbed by an attack at the level of the network equipments.

Update(s):

Date: 2012-03-31 13:40:59 UTC
Still 400'000 simultaneous connections. The infra is running well.

Date: 2012-03-30 20:21:31 UTC
414875 unique IP tried to flood the site
but not at the same time.

We have currently 800000 simultaneous connections.

Date: 2012-03-30 17:32:07 UTC
150'000 unique IPs try to access to the website.

Date: 2012-03-30 17:04:06 UTC
We have 100000 IPs attacking and 2'000'000
simutaneours connections.

Date: 2012-03-30 17:01:46 UTC
We changed the A record of the attacked site to 127.0.0.1 .
It does not change the situation for the time being.
The attack goes on but does not disturb the working
of the other sites.

Date: 2012-03-30 16:46:24 UTC
We have an attack type slowloris on an IP of the
shared hosting. The atteck comes from alsmost
60000 IP which do real connections on the attacked
site and try to open the maximum of connections.


We limited the number of simultaneours connection
by IP to 10 so that the attack maintains at 600'000
simultaneours connections.

It's running correctly.

Date: 2012-03-30 16:43:14 UTC
The attack goes on , but the situation is stabilized.
Posted Mar 30, 2012 - 16:22 UTC