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Created March 30, 2010 19:31
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Hello,
Your Linodes were targeted with a very large denial of service attack on port 6667, commonly used for IRC. The network congestion as a result not only affected your ability to reach your Linode, but also that of hundreds of other customers in both our Newark and London facilities. As such, for the protection of our network, your Linodes will remain nullrouted for at least 24 hours -- until we are confident that removing the block will not affect our network.
Glancing around your home page, I note that you run IRC on your Linode. Is it possible that someone has a bone to pick with you because of your IRC network?
Needless to say, an event of this magnitude gets our attention. Any explanation you can provide would be very beneficial at this time.
With regards,
-Jed
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