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Looks like it's a DDOS attack. I'm guessing the attackers figured out that there's a lot processing is required to generate a repo download (and thus using it a
by atymic 7y ago
Looks like it's a DDOS attack. I'm guessing the attackers figured out that there's a lot processing is required to generate a repo download (and thus using it as a L7 attack).
I'm surprised that the downloads aren't cached. Maybe the attackers are using cache busting or similar to bypass it.
Seems to be back up now.
- sytse 7y agoWe’ve just come back up and we’re monitoring.
- oneplane 7y agoDoes indeed seem to work again, good stuff! (9/10 times, still some sporadic 'whoops' pages).
- veeralpatel979 7y agoWhy makes you saw it's a DDoS attack? Can confirm that it's back up now.
- oneplane 7y agoThe status page shows a few events related to downloads; generating a repo download is apparently ripe for an L7 DoS attack.