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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by alienth on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:08AM (#5575942)
We're mostly recovered, at this time.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by sk3tch on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:10AM (#5575950)
How certain are you guys that it wasn't the sheer levels of traffic due to the ongoing Boston situation?
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by alienth on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:16AM (#5575969)
Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by jordn on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:19AM (#5575978)
What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?

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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by alienth on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:54AM (#5576090)
They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by salimmadjd on Friday April 19, 2013 @10:23AM (#5576774)
Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by Sayter on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:24AM (#5575994)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by windsurfer on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:53AM (#5576088)
You might be overzealous with your bot blocking. I'm being told I'm actually a robot:

    you appear to be a bad robot
    check out the rules for robots. thanks.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by wjamesg on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:51AM (#5576616)
I believe I've had this happen when using a VPN service (though I could be mistaken)
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by Pyramids on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:11AM (#5576153)
Same here, are you using RES or anything else which might increase request volume?
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by jaredmcateer on Friday April 19, 2013 @10:01AM (#5576652)
I use RES, not having any issues.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by windsurfer on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:28AM (#5576004)
Seems like you're still down...
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by mh- on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:42AM (#5576053)
now that is probably just getting back to their regular intermittent availability.
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