On 12 August 2016 at 12:39, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jim, > > There may well have been a Denial of Service attack. > The very likely was a DOS attack, they are rampant and effect every web host with any profile. But they are not magical, they are just a ramp up of traffic with a effect similar to what peak hour does to a road system. It isn't some catastrophic attack that damages systems requiring repair or something. The real questions are why were no readily available counter measures in place, why did the site get taken off-line and why did it take two days(!!!) to restore it. There was a major failing here, but it isn't clear yet what it was. Suffice to say there are plenty of high profile web sites in Australia that face the same environment without multi-day outages. Regards, Michael Skeggs _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
