[outages] Twitter down 8/6 AM

[Dan York]

Twitter indicates on their status blog that they are in the process of  
fighting off a DoS:

http://status.twitter.com/post/157191978/ongoing-denial-of-service-attack

Dan

On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> Completely; I'm at Worldcon 09 in Montreal, and the hotel's proxy
> can't even get the server to reply to its squid.
>
> I *could* ping and mtr www.twitter.com, earlier, but now I can't, and
> downforeveryone concurs.
>
> elphaba:/home/jra # mtr -r -c 10 www.twitter.com
> HOST: elphaba                     Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best   
> Wrst StDev
>  1. 172.16.0.1                    0.0%    10    0.3   0.4   0.2    
> 0.6   0.1
>  2. static-68-179-81-65.ptr.tera  0.0%    10  237.7 106.5  18.3  
> 237.7  82.0
>  3. 172.16.218.254                0.0%    10  275.4 167.3  37.1  
> 361.7  98.8
>  4. 10.64.194.13                 10.0%    10  283.4 148.0  72.2  
> 309.7  92.6
>  5. 69.156.255.213                0.0%    10  231.4 126.4  30.0  
> 287.5  85.5
>  6. core4-montreal02_POS6-1.net.  0.0%    10  179.4 104.5  20.2  
> 235.5  65.3
>  7. Ncore3-montreal02_POS0-4-1-0  0.0%    10  167.6 119.2  12.2  
> 323.6  98.3
>  8. newcore1-newyork83_so1-0-0.n  0.0%    10  405.4 182.1  52.8  
> 405.4 107.5
>  9. CORE1-NEWYORK83_POS3-0-0_cor 10.0%    10  353.4 155.5  48.8  
> 353.4  93.0
> 10. Verio-Peering.net.bell.ca     0.0%    10  340.9 153.3  49.1  
> 340.9  97.9
> 11. ae-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.  0.0%    10  319.6 156.6  62.1  
> 319.6  87.2
> 12. as-0.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.  0.0%    10  327.4 168.6  98.8  
> 327.4  70.1
> 13. xe-2-3.r00.asbnva02.us.bb.gi  0.0%    10  395.5 164.0  61.5  
> 395.5  95.4
> 14. ???                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0    
> 0.0   0.0
>
> Looks like their upstream borke, to me.
>
> Great timing... not that there isn't always *something* going on  
> somewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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