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We're mostly recovered, at this time.

• sk3tch 13y ago
  How certain are you guys that it wasn't the sheer levels of traffic due to the ongoing Boston situation?
  • alienth 13y ago
    Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.
    • jordn 13y ago
      What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt? Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?
      • Sayter 13y ago
        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670
      • alienth 13y ago
        They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.
        • salimmadjd 13y ago
          Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects
• windsurfer 13y ago
  Seems like you're still down...
  • mh- 13y ago
    now that is probably just getting back to their regular intermittent availability.
• windsurfer 13y ago
  You might be overzealous with your bot blocking. I'm being told I'm actually a robot: you appear to be a bad robot check out the rules for robots. thanks.
  • Pyramids 13y ago
    Same here, are you using RES or anything else which might increase request volume?
    • jaredmcateer 13y ago
      I use RES, not having any issues.
  • wjamesg 13y ago
    I believe I've had this happen when using a VPN service (though I could be mistaken)