Mapstodon.Space domain name provider just experienced a massive DDoS attack
Our instance was down for more than an hour following a large DNS DDoS attack on Alwaysdata, who manages our domain. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can read the attack report here, especially this part:
The attack started at 12:55 CEST and was mitigated at 14:10 CEST. During that period of time, our DNS servers were overloaded, which would cause random DNS issues (timeout, mostly).
The downtime was unusually long as the attack was exceptionally large, more than 10 times the largest we had ever seen. It targeted government websites, which makes us think it may have been done by a state-level or state-sponsored actor. We had to beef up our DNS anti-DDoS toolbox to successfully mitigate it.
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