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[News] Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attackANN.lu
Posted on 13-Jan-2003 05:57 GMT by John Klos18 comments
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Sixgirls Computing Labs, which is known for providing hosting services on Amiga hardware, is experiencing a massive denial of service attack of unprecedented magnitude. reva.sixgirls.org, an Amiga 4000 which provides hosting for nearly 300 domains and more than 150 users, is the victim of another denial of service attack.

A previous attack saturated the 10-base-T connection of the Amiga server with over 7 Mbps of syn packets, which caused loss of most connectivity for part of a day, but the machine was put behind another Sixgirls server with 100-base-T connections which filters this traffic.

Another attack began at midnight EST Sunday morning. Information from the upstream router shows that this attack is using 150 Mbps of traffic to make the connection unusable. Measures will be put into place to block this traffic upstream, and normal service should resume sometime Monday. The authorities are investigating.

Temporarily, you may have trouble accessing sites which are hosted on reva.sixgirls.org, such as:
http://distributed.amiga.org/
http://www.totalamiga.org/
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/
http://ireland.amiga.org/
and others.

Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 1 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 13-Jan-2003 05:07 GMT
Err...

...sixgirls????????
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 2 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by T_Bone on 13-Jan-2003 05:16 GMT
Um, posting a link to a hosting service run on an A4000 *IS* a DOS attack.
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 3 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by dammy on 13-Jan-2003 05:39 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (T_Bone):
Does this mean we can say its' been ANNied? =)

Dammy
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 4 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 13-Jan-2003 07:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (dammy):
It got "Boinged".
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 5 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by AdmV on 13-Jan-2003 08:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
I am not sure the owners of these domains will thank you for making public weaknesses in the behind the scenes infrastructure.

Disclosing this information is impolite, at least, and downright nasty if it leads to further attacks on the infrastructure.

AdmV
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 6 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 13-Jan-2003 11:38 GMT
"Damn, those evil MorphOSers are attacking Amiga Inc again! Damn them!"

I can see that coming...
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 7 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by anarchic_teapot on 13-Jan-2003 14:10 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
> "Damn, those evil MorphOSers are attacking Amiga Inc again! Damn them!"

> I can see that coming...

LOL

It's all a fiendish plot. Personally, I blame the Government.
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 8 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Darrin on 13-Jan-2003 15:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
Ahh, the famous "Double Bluff" routine ;-)
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 9 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by alan buxey on 13-Jan-2003 15:35 GMT
..and sticking a URL link to this poor machine will help?

alan
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 10 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Some negro on 13-Jan-2003 16:01 GMT
Lets all team up and hack and attack Amiga websites starting with Amiga.org then Eyetech,Elbox,Amiga.com, then show the bastards we mean business.
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 11 of 18ANN.lu
In reply to Comment 10 (Some negro):
Message removed by CK for violation of ANN's posting rules.
Specific reason from moderator: Personal insult
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 12 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Xeyes on 13-Jan-2003 21:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Pedro):
> This message has been removed by CK since it violated one or more of ANN's
> posting rules. Specific reason from moderator: Personal insult

Damn, I always miss the good dish.
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 13 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Rob on 13-Jan-2003 21:26 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Some negro):
Someone already said that. It was in private though. Allegedly.
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 14 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Its me sancho on 13-Jan-2003 21:46 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Rob):
Jesus Christ! No not a denial of service attack. But what have these poor people done to deserve this! I mean their reliable, good willing souls who want only the very best for Amiga. Oh wait... scratch that.
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 15 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by John Klos on 14-Jan-2003 04:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (AdmV):
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making public the type of server we're using. Security through obscurity is a foolish operating practise.

That said, people host on this machine BECAUSE it's an Amiga.

Most small to medium ISPs could easily be taken down by 150 mbps of bogus traffic. So what difference does it make whether I have an Amiga or, say, some PC? A flood is a flood. With 100 mbps uplink, there's not much anyone can do.

Even during the peak 150 mbps, we were still getting SOME packets through. Not bad for an m68k Amiga.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 16 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Atheist2 on 14-Jan-2003 09:29 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (John Klos):
YOU GO GIRLS!!!!


Amiga RULEZ!!!
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 17 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Jope on 16-Jan-2003 09:09 GMT
Just had to ask, why the name "reva"? Does it mean something in a language I can't understand?

As a Finn, the fact that you have a company called Sixgirls and a box called "reva" is hilarious.. :-) (reva == obscene name for female genitalia)
Amiga hosting provider suffering denial of service attack : Comment 18 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by lucifer on 03-May-2003 16:45 GMT
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