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Chinese DDoS? Somehow I don't buy power going out at a server farm.
by free2rhyme214 11y ago
Chinese DDoS? Somehow I don't buy power going out at a server farm.
- cjbprime 11y ago> Chinese DDoS? Somehow I don't buy power going out at a server farm. You should read more about server farms.
- oxguy3 11y agoWhy not? Things break. Electricity is one of those magical things that's very hard to have insanely good uptime -- frankly, it's incredibly impressive that power outages aren't more common. And why would GitHub not disclose that it was a DDoS? They were very forthcoming when there actually _was_ a Chinese DDoS last April: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-crippled-github-linked-to-great-firewall-of-china/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr... And in a DDoS, the service typically becomes slower and slower until it reaches the point where only like one in a hundred requests succeeds. With the GitHub outage, it died fairly instantaneously, and it was completely 100% dead. There was no timeout as the servers tried to respond -- the "no servers are available" error page loaded instantly every time.
- johnhenry 11y agoConsidering the attacks within the past year, I was thinking the same thing. I hate to spread conspiracies without foundation, but I wonder if anyone has seen a assessment on the cyberkinetic capabilities of nations around the world?