DDoS Attack on JANET - Schools and Universities Network

[Nismo]

I'm not certain that's true at all.

Pretty certain you can design, implement and test whilst not online.

This.

Had another outage of about an hour this morning, back up now.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I'm not certain that's true at all.

Pretty certain you can design, implement and test whilst not online.

Deployment to live is a bit tricky though

 

[paradigm]

I'm not 100% certain that anyone doing a course needs to make anything "live" either.

Dev > Stage > "internal live" would be more than sufficient.

 

[Ayahuasca]

lol amigafan2003

So basically you weren't doing any work then, browsing and posting on OCUK doesn't count.

 

[wilber]

We where off from around 9am to 2pm yesterday.

Just had somone asking was their a problem every 5 mins, afternoon was relatively quiet. Suppose they where all catching up with facebook.

 

[glenimp617]

Can't see the issue

Websites all seems ok

Speedtest reporting 950mb up and down

 

[Rosbif]

Janet? The Register?!?!

I think I've gone back in time to 1998!!!

 

[dr_volki]

Can't see the issue

Websites all seems ok

Speedtest reporting 950mb up and down

don't think everybody is affected.
yesterday when we had issues, certain websites wouldn't load at all like bbc news, but ocuk was fine
other times in the day nothing was working.

 

[subbytna]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/08/uk_research_network_janet_ddos/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/janet-uk-university-cyber-attack-internet-down-a6765056.html

Pretty serious stuff this with millions of people affected. It's a very persistent and adaptive attack, looks like they are having a hard time controlling it.

My day was great, occurred right after Ofsted walked through the door.

How many students here weren't unable to submit work to make a deadline?

I work in a university affected by it. A pain in the hole it was. Works fine now though.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

lol amigafan2003

So basically you weren't doing any work then, browsing and posting on OCUK doesn't count.

Well I didn't have any work to do as I've already handed all my assignments in, so I was there mainly to help the other students

 

[jsmoke]

Back in the day we used carrier pidgeons.

 

[x22dan]

This has been an issue for the company i work with since the start of term.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Back in the day we used carrier pidgeons.

Is JANET still going? I remember that back in the 80's. Hope they're not still running it on BBC Micro's.

 

[Throrik]

This is happening again. Doesn't seem to be quite as bad for us this time, but still annoying.

 

[bullyy2k90]

We were hit again the back end of last week.

 

[mysticsniper]

This is happening again. Doesn't seem to be quite as bad for us this time, but still annoying.

Still happening today - https://www.jisc.ac.uk/network/issues

I would be interested in finding out with type of DDoS Attack techniques are being used.

 

[Rroff]

This is happening again. Doesn't seem to be quite as bad for us this time, but still annoying.

Might have affected where I work (collaterally) last night as stuff being run overnight didn't go through properly due to connectivity issues on the core network.

 

[Tee Hee Johnson]

Seems to be happening right now

 

[leaskovski]

I remember Janet whilst I was at Kent uni. I hated it. You had to set up proxies to get internet access which meant you couldn't do any gaming outside of the uni network... that was until we setup a proxy using someones account on merlin, et viola! Though, when they got busted, they got done big style! lol