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DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.

36 points| smurfpandey | 11 years ago |status.github.com

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[+] dak1|11 years ago|reply
I'm also unable to access the two repos that were apparently the target of the PRC's ire: https://github.com/cn-nytimes and https://github.com/greatfire

Is this simply a temporary precautionary measure because of the initial JS DDOS, or has GitHub permanently taken those two repos down?

If it's the latter, then I'm really disappointed and it would seem the PRC was able to get what it wanted.

[+] micah_chatt|11 years ago|reply
Interestingly, GitHub seem's to be allowing logged-in users to access those pages, but using a incongnito tab shows unicorns. I'm guessing they've just disabled access for unauthenticated requests.
[+] smurfpandey|11 years ago|reply
Both repos are still up and accessible from my end (India).
[+] andor436|11 years ago|reply
They're there for me (I'm in the US-midwest.)
[+] ryannevius|11 years ago|reply
Maybe...but it was green a couple of times on March 27 as well. Time will tell.
[+] johnnyfaehell|11 years ago|reply
I think it's more they're no longer worried about it evolving any more.
[+] cotillion|11 years ago|reply
They're still hiding behind Prolexic/Akamai. I suspect the attacker is waiting for them to drop that protection.

From a state sponsored attacker I would have expected to see a BGP attack..

[+] f055|11 years ago|reply
Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
[+] lordbusiness|11 years ago|reply
Not by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years.

Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)