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Offline DaBees-Knees

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Mininova Hit By Massive DDoS Attack
« on: March 09, 2009, 08:53:22 am »
http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-hit-by-massive-ddos-attack-090307/

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Mininova, one of the leading BitTorrent sites, has been suffering from a massive DDoS attack over the past few days. Originating from a botnet spanning three continents, the attacks vary in strength and are causing the site to be completely inaccessible at times. The Mininova team is working on a solution. MininovaDDoS attacks are not an unusual event for BitTorrent sites, with smaller sites suffering the effects more often than they’d like. However, to take out one of the big players requires some serious power, and that is exactly what Mininova is up against right now. Mininova co-founder Niek confirmed to TorrentFreak that they have been suffering from a DDoS attack over the past few days. The site is currently being pounded by a botnet of hundreds of computers which is slowing the site down significantly and at times making it completely inaccessible. Niek said that he has no idea who’s behind the attack or why they chose to target Mininova. This is not the first time the site has had to deal with a Denial of Service attack, but they haven’t witnessed one of this magnitude before. It started on Thursday originating from three different continents, but seemed to wear off in the hours that followed. Today it’s back in full force. Mininova is used to serving millions of visitors a day, but even they are not equipped to handle an attack like this. Today’s attack originates from Germany and Argentina and is 2 Gbit strong. The DDoS attack is maxing out the entire uplink and is hard to filter since it uses UDP connections. Niek told TorrentFreak that they are working on a solution at the moment, and he hopes things will be back to normal soon.

If you have struggled to use Mininova this might explain why.

Offline RReactor

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Re: Mininova Hit By Massive DDoS Attack
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2009, 08:44:36 pm »
mininova is a pretty good site for music i use it regularly
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