.moon downtime update
Apr. 8th, 2007 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dejanaThe host's status page is back online with an update. A couple of key passages:
We are currently experiencing intermittent DNS outages on all of our nameservers, this is causing problems with sites and email functioning properly.
UPDATE (2007-04-08 03:20 PDT): It appears we are the victims of an Easter DOS attack against our nameservers, we have an admin at the datacenter and our network expert onhand to deal with it. Hopefully things will be back to normal shortly.
Ooookay. My nerd skillz are apparently lacking. A short Google trip later...
DOS attack: Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.
Ah. A nameserver outage would explain the off-network status page being down, if the host registers its own domains (which it most likely does). So now at least we have some idea of what's up. Sucks to be them even more than it sucks to be us.
EDIT 7:15 AM: And we're back online. :D
We are currently experiencing intermittent DNS outages on all of our nameservers, this is causing problems with sites and email functioning properly.
UPDATE (2007-04-08 03:20 PDT): It appears we are the victims of an Easter DOS attack against our nameservers, we have an admin at the datacenter and our network expert onhand to deal with it. Hopefully things will be back to normal shortly.
Ooookay. My nerd skillz are apparently lacking. A short Google trip later...
DOS attack: Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.
Ah. A nameserver outage would explain the off-network status page being down, if the host registers its own domains (which it most likely does). So now at least we have some idea of what's up. Sucks to be them even more than it sucks to be us.
EDIT 7:15 AM: And we're back online. :D
