Is this some sort of ransom event against them maybe? And what are the rest of you telling your customers? We seem to have only a few specifically complaining, but those are complaining a lot.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:06 PM Ivan Kovacevic < [email protected]> wrote: > Happening again. > > https://status.bandwidth.com/ > > > [image: Star Telecom - Cloud Communications and Customer Experience > Solutions] <https://www.startelecom.ca/> > > *Ivan Kovacevic* > > *Co-Founder and VP Client Services* > > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:19 PM Peter Beckman via VoiceOps < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2021, Ryan Delgrosso wrote: >> >> > Nothing meaningful other than the normal public party line. >> > >> > I too have heard unofficially that its DDOS, which makes sense given >> the >> > recurring nature. >> > >> > 4.5hrs down Sat >> >> Our monitoring showed 2 hours 47 minutes of actual service affecting >> outages across Voice (Inbound and Outbound), Messaging, and API/Portal. >> >> The issue started at 3pm and recovered at 5:47pm EDT. We reported it to >> the TAC at 3:07pm, they did not post on Status until 3:31pm. >> >> > Some small downtime Sun >> > >> > Now deep into Monday with problems. >> > >> > Its not a good look, but id like some more transparency. >> >> DDoS attacks are real and hard to null route. You've got millions of IP >> addresses slamming you with data. Your router has a capacity, and your >> router cannot handle all of that extra crap data along with all of our >> traffic too. >> >> I'm sure BW will be investing in some beefy hardware that will be able >> to >> better handle DDoS attacks, as well as working more closely with their >> peering providers. I have to assume that they were getting gigabits of >> traffic, overwhelming their links in addition to their edge routers. >> >> Cloudflare details how they do it here: >> >> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172676-Understanding-Cloudflare-DDoS-protection >> >> Not much to be transparent about. The Internet is an unfriendly place, >> and >> bad actors can rain hell upon any public IP they want. Unsecured >> laptops, >> desktops, TVs, IOT devices, etc, all contribute just a little tiny bit, >> and all focus on one single point, kinda like those giant solar farms >> with >> the mirrors and single tower in the middle to boil the molten salt. >> >> Well, Bandwidth is the molten salt, and the mirrors are a bunch of >> unsecured devices on the Internet. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Peter Beckman Internet >> Guy >> [email protected] >> https://www.angryox.com/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> > > NOTE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the > sender by replying to this email, and destroy all copies of the original > message. > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >
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