Cause of LJ outage
Jul. 28th, 2011 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenIn case anybody missed it, from status.livejournal.com:
We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you!
Post here shows the traffic - about 6-8 gigabits/sec. "it was and is a DDoS, and such power and character, that to LiveJournal servers he had not even reached, ie Backbone providers Qwest and Verizon, delivering services in a data center where our servers are located, could not stand the load, and the entire data center, ie, not only LiveJournal, were cut off from the world for at least 5 hours."
Presumably for the same reasons as last time - attempts to silence a Russian dissident (lj user Navalny) who uses LJ to expose government corruption.
We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you!
Post here shows the traffic - about 6-8 gigabits/sec. "it was and is a DDoS, and such power and character, that to LiveJournal servers he had not even reached, ie Backbone providers Qwest and Verizon, delivering services in a data center where our servers are located, could not stand the load, and the entire data center, ie, not only LiveJournal, were cut off from the world for at least 5 hours."
Presumably for the same reasons as last time - attempts to silence a Russian dissident (lj user Navalny) who uses LJ to expose government corruption.
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Date: 2011-07-28 11:41 pm (UTC)