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Title: System Outage 2017 August 24 Date: 2017-08-24 00:00 Modified: 2017-08-24 00:00 Category: outages Tags: sysadmin Slug: outage-20170824 Authors: vaeringjar Description: Welcome to the The Peers Community, a highly motivated community of people with a strong interest in free software and free culture. Summary: Outage caused by DDOS.
What happened
The peers.community and related sudomains were inaccessible, intermittently for several hours.
What caused it
An unidentified DDOS attack disrupted our DNS.
How has this been addressed
Our hosting provider was somehow able to address the issue.