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On March 7, 2013 at approximately 3:20PM our network monitoring detected a large amount of inbound traffic to several segments of our public facing network. This large inbound traffic tripped our alerting system and we started to investigate.

Within just a few moments we watched a large Distributed Denial of Service attack unfold upon our network. The attack was a targeted UDP attack at our edge. Typically we can quickly identify and null route these types of attacks, however this attack was very large and coming from thousands of sources.

 

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The above network graph represents just one port on a switch that was targeted. As you can see the 100mbps port was 100% saturated. You can also see when the attack was stopped by our network admin team.

 

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During the attack, I grabbed the above graph from one of our gigE switch fiber feeds, as I wanted to show the family just how large of an attack this was. It was a very short sampling but shows how much inbound we were taking. At one point the attack was pushing over 1.5Gbps of traffic into our network. This combined with such a large amount of packets per second simply overwhelmed our routers.

 

The actions we were taking against the DDOS starting showing progress at around 4:15:20PM EST and complete network stability was returned at 5:39:10 EST.

 

While we never like to endure such events, every provider on the internet faces these issues and it is just part of doing business online.

 

I am sorry for the network instability from yesterday.

 

Thank you for your business.


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