Ah, that's why the downtime

[avram]

Apparently LiveJournal has been (and is still being) the subject of a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. See the lj_maintenance entry for 20 Feb for details. Note that the earleir of those two entries was written not too long after midnight, so “tonight” probably refers to Wednesday night. 5:30 PM PST is 8:30 PM EST, and I tried to get on around 10 PM and couldn’t.

The SQL Slammer worm that caused so much trouble a few weeks ago also worked via a DDoS attack. I don’t know if it’s the same kind of DDoS.

(Yeah, I know, I oughta be asleep, but an insight popped into my head for the review of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom that I’m writing, and I wanted to get it down.)