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    Another DDoS attack?

    Is it just circuits between AW in the US and the UK, or is there yet another DDoS attack underway on the AW servers?

    Broadband d/l speeds have sunk to dial-up levels at 8k/s at the moment, which is about a tenth of what would be expected on a good day. The main part of the site is a bit better, but media.abbywinters.com is currently miserable in performance (although, as I write, it is just climbing into double figures for the d/l speed for the first time in the past 6 hours). 6 hours ago the site was unreachable for fairly lengthy periods.

    Oh, it'll probably rectify itself in good time -- most things of this nature do!

    #2
    Hi

    No DDOS attacks lately. Let us know if you still have the problem tomorrow.

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      #3
      Thanks for the swift reply.

      The problem seemed to ease itself after about 02.30 GMT +01.00. Possibly some log-jam either on the tiscali.net link from the UK to New York, or on Savvis somewhere in the US. But it was odd -- the www.abbywinters.com servers were definitely serving data quicker than the media.abbywinters.com ones. Pings to media. were about double, or timed out entirely, compared with pings to www. The data rate was down to about 2 k/s at the slowest -- in fact, so slow that even using a download manager the connection to the server fell over 18 times before a 31Mb file would download.

      An odd thing was that traceroute showed Savvis routing the packets from Dallas to LA and back to Dallas again -- and that was regardless of whether the connection was paused and restarted. Each time the route chosen had the same redundant hops. That's what made me think the delay might be the US side.

      But it all got quicker after that, so, metaphorically, the sun's shining again -- even through here it's still dark outside!

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