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Re:Github.com is down by jdaley on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:27AM (#6069637)
@githubstatus: Working with our upstream providers to mitigate a rather large DDoS at the moment.
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Re:Github.com is down by antihero on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:34AM (#6069684)
Why would someone go to all the trouble of making a botnet, then DDoSing GitHub ffs.
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Re:Github.com is down by tokenizerrr on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:48AM (#6069754)
Why not? They likely already have a botnet, they didn't make it to DDoS GitHub specifically. Maybe they were annoyed with someone who was using GitHub, or they wanted to prove a point, who knows. All in all, the reason is because they can.
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Re:Github.com is down by sayit on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:45AM (#6070470)
Maybe there is NO ddos
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