[145306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: he.net down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nate Itkin)
Mon Oct 3 19:25:48 2011
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:25:08 -1000
From: Nate Itkin <nanog@konadogs.net>
To: Michael J McCafferty <mike@m5computersecurity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1918971735-1317683645-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-704092685-@b1.c3.bise6.blackberry>
Cc: Aiden Sullivan <aiden@sullivan.in>, nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: nanog@konadogs.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:14:03PM +0000, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> Our session with them is up and down at Any2 at OWB.
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Aiden Sullivan
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: he.net down?
> Sent: Oct 3, 2011 3:35 PM
>
> www.he.net seems to be down on both IPv4 and IPv6 -- does anyone know what is
> going on?
> --
> Aiden
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Blaming DDOS. http://status.linode.com
"The incident was a probable DDOS attack, but its behavior was unusual and difficult to identify. Our network engineers made some adjustments to the DOS countermeasures acquired after last week's incident, and that seems to have stabilized traffic flow. We apologize for the inconvenience. -Ben Larsen Hurricane Electric Internet Services"
Some supporting evidence would be nice.
- Nate Itkin
