All .tk domains down due to DDOS attack

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April 2, 2003 at 8:02 pm #7265

Tony
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All .tk web sites are down due to a DDOS Attack (Distributed Denial of Service Attack). (Source: http://195.20.32.85/vc00401h.html)

This means that you currently cannot access Online Status Indicator using http://www.onlinestatus.tk.

Please use status.webhop.net to access the Online Status Indicator at this time.

April 2, 2003 at 10:21 pm #63716

lifelessadmin
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I told you that you should get a .com, cheapskate!

April 2, 2003 at 10:25 pm #63712

Tony
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Hmm… http://www.onlinestatus.com is already taken

April 3, 2003 at 12:31 am #63714

detn8r
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whats wrong with osi.com?

April 3, 2003 at 7:10 am #63711

rustedtight
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quote: whats wrong with osi.com?

The Open Source Institute would be really chuffed.

April 3, 2003 at 2:55 pm #63715

Allowee
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“The attack has also been reported to the appropriate Dutch police authorities. “
they won’t do a thing about it…..
my friend works there…
they will check a few things.. thats about it
they won’t get DNS/WHOIS records and talk to the ISP’s.
to much work…..

there are scripts which will not allow more then 10 connections, from 1 ip, at 1 sec.
I would also built in a service load checker…
is the load on http to much, shut it down for 30 mins, is the DNS load to much… shut it down for 15 mins.

I always advise: not put more then 2 services, which can get a heavy load, on 1 server. splitt it.

April 8, 2003 at 5:30 pm #63713

detn8r
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I just recieved an email from .TK regarding this issue, and thought that you would have liked to read it.
Dont ask me which web site I used for .TK cause I dont remember.

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quote:Malo ni Graham Coats,

You may have noticed that your Dot TK Website
was recently down. This downtime has been the
result of a massive Internet (DDOS) attack on the
Dot TK root servers. Although we have made the
required changes in our network to get everything
back up again, we wanted to briefly explain
what happened.

As you may know, when someone wants to visit a
.TK website, his computer first contacts one of
the three Root Servers of Dot TK. One of the Root
Servers is located in San Francisco, and the other
two are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There are
more than 400,000 domains registered with Dot TK.
Websites bearing the .TK extension and those sites
are visited more than 40 times per second by people
all around the world. DDOS attacks are attacks on
computer networks whereby packets of information
are sent through the Internet to one or more destinations,
in this case: the Root Servers of Dot TK.

This attack resulted in the immediate non-availability
of all 400,000 Dot TK websites, which use the .TK
extension including the Dot TK registry website http://www.dot.tk.

This was such a large attack that The Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) in the United States is thoroughly
investigating the attack, IP address by IP address,
since one of the Root Servers is on US soil.
Also the Criminal Investigation Service of the Dutch
law enforcement is working on the case.

You can review the Press Release on the attack by going to:
http://www.dot.tk/vc00401.html

The good news is that together with ICANN, the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
which deals with policies of Root Servers on
the Internet, Dot TK has found a solution.
The Root Servers of Dot TK are back online since
April 2nd 2003. Due to the “propogation” of domains,
it took some more time to get back “up” again. At
this moment, everything is working again and all
domains should be available.

[:P] its a good thing without TK. they couldnt afford you anyway, with all the hits you get a day. but its good that you did buy your own tho man… its nice without the pop ups.
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