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Subject: Re: Playchess server down? ~ 7:30 AM Eastern Time USA

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 06:42:37 01/25/03

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On January 25, 2003 at 08:23:44, pavel wrote:

>playchess.com
>
>Saturday, Jan 25: Our server is hosted in the Frankfurt datacentre of Verio,
>which is currently under attack. Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>Dear Customer,
>
>At around 6am GMT (7am CET), the Verio NOC became aware of loss of
>
>connectivity to the datacentres, due to what appears to be a Distributed Denial
>of Service Attack on both facilities. The Verio NOC (Network Operations Centre)
>are attempting to block the attack by filtering packets on the backbone. We
>appreciate your patience while we work through this issue.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Bob
>
>Verio Tech. Support
>
>
>
>We apologize, the server seems currently down.
>
>Please try again later,
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Lo sentimos, el servidor está fuera de servicio en estos momentos.
>
>No hay funcionando ningún servidor alternativo.
>
>Por favor inténtelo un poco más tarde.
>
>Muchas gracias.
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Wir bitten um Entschuldigung, der Schachserver nimmt derzeit keine Verbindungen
>an.
>
>Es läuft kein Backupserver.
>
>Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal.
>
>Vielen Dank.
>
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>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030125/ap_wo_en_po/na_gen_internet_attack_2
>
>
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>
>
>pavs

I wonder if the FICS problem is also a DDOS attack?  Anybody know?

Matt



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