11-hour incident blocked traffic from reaching rackspace.com and some subdomains
24 Dec 2014 at 03:58, Simon Sharwood
Rackspace says it has recovered from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that it says may have seen “a portion of legitimate traffic to our DNS infrastructure … inadvertently blocked.”
The trouble started just before lunchtime on Monday, US central time, and persisted until 11 hours later.
Over on the company's Google+ page Rackspace warned of “intermittent periods of latency, packet loss, or connectivity failures when attempting to reach rackspace.com or subdomains within rackspace.com.”
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