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A comment on Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?.

Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by asdojasdosadsa on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:16AM (#17744450)
I'm not the best at interpreting this map[0] but seems that something is going on?

[0] http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&...

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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by user5994461 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:32AM (#17744506)
Looks like an ongoing DNS reflection attack from all over the world to the US.
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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by sonofblah on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:04AM (#17744641)
What's the significance of Poland in the output? A tracking thing?

I noticed problems with Reddit earlier, too.

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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by wildrhythms on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:04PM (#17744935)
Where are you seeing 'Poland in the output'?

>Edit: Nevermind, I see what you mean (on the map). I'd be interested to know too... maybe PL is a big player in their attack monitoring?

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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by seba_dos1 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:34PM (#17747683)
I don't think so - when you look at historical data, labels change. Seems like Poland is simply a significant actor in this particular attack.
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