Incident: Partial disruption 2023-09-11 00:10 - 07:20 due to DDoS attack
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Type |
Incident |
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Summary |
DDos attack on climatejustice.social |
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Impact |
Multiple downtimes of all services |
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Duration |
2023-09-11 00:10 - 07:20 (CEST) |
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Status |
Resolved |
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Reporter(s) |
Monitoring, @damadmai, upstream provider |
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Responder(s) |
@b2c@wien.rocks |
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Internal reference |
n/a |
Summary
Due to a DDos attack on the Mastodon instance climatejustice.global the fediverse.foundation services suffered a partial outage in the indicated period of time.
Symptoms
fediverse.foundation services responding slowly or becoming unavailable.
Investigation
Log analysis shows more than one million requests per minute on the public endpoints /public/local and /explore of climatejustice.social
Workaround
Upstream provider took action and blackholed offending traffic.
Resolution
n/a
Follow-up tasks
- Report attacker IPs to upstream provider abuse contact(s) -> done
- Discussion with hoster and provider on how to handle such situations in the future -> provider will establish contact
- Upstream DDos protection systems