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Re: wikileaks unreachable


From: Andree Toonk <andree+nanog () toonk nl>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:23:33 -0800

Seems like they moved to Amazon a few hours ago:

$ whois -h whois.bgpmon.net wikileaks.org

Prefix:              46.51.128.0/18
Prefix description:  Amazon EU AWS Dublin
Country code:        IE
Origin AS:           39111
Origin AS Name:      ADSI-AS Amazon EU DC AS


.-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 10-11-28 2:07 PM Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
I wouldn't have thought that PRQ would have any significant protection in place.

Jeff


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:03 PM, William Pitcock
<nenolod () systeminplace net>  wrote:
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 16:43 -0500, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
I'm surprised it took this long for the DDoS train to pull into the station.

Wikileaks gets DDoSed all the time.  My understanding is that PRQ
nullrouted the IP because the DDoS is much larger this time.

William









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