Denial of Service attack on South Africa (Friday the 13th)

[Miktar]

Seems someone is using Friday the 13th to launch a worm, that has already infected most of SA from the looks of it - expect the Internet to be near-useless for the rest of the weekend, we think. Gldm could explain in more detail.

[GeometriX]

From what I've gathered, it started on Monday. Timed well with IS's new capping announcements. It's had us answering calls all day from clients wondering why their internet is stuffed beyond all reason. Seems IS and Mweb users are mostly affected, but I'm sure others will be taken down too.

Yay for iBurst, for once ;)

[Azimuth]

Er, I've been having problems with iBurst for the past two days.

[Kensei]

From what I've gathered, it started on Monday. Timed well with IS's new capping announcements. It's had us answering calls all day from clients wondering why their internet is stuffed beyond all reason. Seems IS and Mweb users are mostly affected, but I'm sure others will be taken down too.

Yay for iBurst, for once ;)

Really? Must be the end users that are most affected because my internet has not been affected much all week (actually everything worked perfectly all day today ;) ) - and my company is one of IS's best corporate customers. :D

I say 'much' because there were internal issues this week with the internet, but that was the local IT department having problems with their proxy...

Unless I haven't noticed :S

[wir]

I haven't really noticed, my ping just isn't too great on the saix css servers.
Instead of 40-80ms its 100-200 ms.
I'm at Webafrica by the way.

[Surprise]

My Mweb connection is just fine, guess I'm just lucky.

[GeometriX]

Hmm, guess it's difficult to pin-point who is affected then. I only mentioned iBurst because myself and none of my clients on iBurst have had any problems this week.

But, yeah, I'm eager for someone with more knowledge about this incident to shed some light on this whole situation.

[Karuji]

my net seems fine downloads take a normal amount of time though im getting 400-1000ms ping on shadowfire :? otherwise mweb for me is fine

[Machine]

My internet is fine at home but at work its gone from "512" to to the speed of dial-up, seriously. We were downloading updates for some software and it was going at 4KB/s, ouch!!!

[Frozenfireside]

I'vr been online for most of friday and I'm not noticing anything like denial of service for anywebsite.
I couldnt get into nag but that was due to the forum changes.

[Chevron]

Well internet at work has been f****** since thursday. I work for an isp metroweb.

[.dB]

My internet is fine at home but at work its gone from "512" to to the speed of dial-up, seriously. We were downloading updates for some software and it was going at 4KB/s, ouch!!!

You require more Vespene Gas.

[Kensei]

But, yeah, I'm eager for someone with more knowledge about this incident to shed some light on this whole situation.

I'll ask my network colleagues on Monday (since I work at a little known company called Dimension Data)

[Nandrew]

I'll ask my network colleagues on Monday (since I work at a little known company called Dimension Data)

Duuuude, I has a friend who works at DD. But, erm, I don't remember which one it is.

Oooh, wait, I know it's a guy! Do you know anybody at DD who is a male, has hair, two eyes and knows someone whose handle is Nandrew?

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Oh, and I've been stuck on dialup speeds for the past few days. But then again, that's cos I actually am on dialup. ;_;

[Garson007]

Oh, and I've been stuck on dialup speeds for the past few days. But then again, that's cos I actually am on dialup. ;_;

^5

Actually, every time I propose something to Nandrew he gives me a denial of Service message.

[Miktar]

It seems the issue resolved itself.