Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack

[Skippy]

Sixgirls Computing Labs, which is known for providing hosting services on Amiga hardware, is experiencing a massive denial of service attack of unprecedented magnitude.

Read more as this effects many Amiga related services. 'Ed

reva.sixgirls.org, an Amiga 4000 which provides hosting for nearly 300 domains and more than 150 users, is the victim of another denial of service attack.

A previous attack saturated the 10-base-T connection of the Amiga server with over 7 Mbps of syn packets, which caused loss of most connectivity for part of a day, but the machine was put behind another Sixgirls server with 100-base-T connections which filters this traffic.

Another attack began at midnight EST Sunday morning. Information from the upstream router shows that this attack is using 150 Mbps of traffic to make the connection unusable. Measures will be put into place to block this traffic upstream, and normal service should resume sometime Monday. The authorities are investigating.

Temporarily, you may have trouble accessing sites which are hosted on reva.sixgirls.org, such as:
http://distributed.amiga.org/
http://www.totalamiga.org/
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/
http://ireland.amiga.org/
and others.

Source: ANN

[ikir]

Bastard! :evil:

[hagar]

Hopefully the responsible will get caught.
:pissed:

[Ivan]

>Hopefully the responsible will get caught.

I hope he's caught too. But there is a bright
side to this too. It seems that Amiga systems
online are more than the fanatics can handle.
What's more, its a flood and not being hacked
into.

Personally, i love the thought that the only
thing that can take down an amiga based server
is haveing tons more bandwidth.

Hope they tell us what happens in the end with
the one(s) sending the attacks.

Ivan

[SidMan]

What amazes me is why all these Amiga related sites have been put under attack recently. I mean, we are such a small community, struggling to survive on a few remaining companies. Is it an attempt to finally kill us all off.......

...or is this just normal, do other sites regularly receive this treatment?
 :-?  :-?

[mikeymike]

I hope I don't have the misfortune to meet the kind of idiots that get their jollies off doing this kind of thing...

Answering SidMan's question, yes, certain categories of companies get a lot of this kind of action against their online services.  MS's network infrastructure for just their website is "distributed" to say the least :-)

[KennyR]

I'm amazed at the sheer bandwidth of the attacker. www.amiga-news.de quotes it as about 150mps, so does someone have a private mega-speed line that they use just for lame hacking, or are virus infected PCs doing the attack for him/her?

I'm glad my Amiga is hiding behind a syn-flood protected hardware router...