Reply #16: First time I have been able to access DU today

[WilyWondr]

is right now. I was trying to get here all morning but was unable. I did a tracert to see what the problem was and this is what I found.

The last router I was able to hit was 209.8.108.37. This IP is owned by a company named "Beyond The Network America" and is based in Herdon, VA. They have been known to setup bots that takedown sites by signing up a massive amount of users in a short period of time. Kind of like a DOS attack whereby the bots take up the resources of a site in order to shut it down or make it inaccessable.

I have no doubt that this is what they were doing to DU earlier this morning.

I hope the admins here at DU are aware that they were under attack this morning and I hope they take appropriate measures to ensure it does not happen again....as well as possibly getting "Beyond The Network America" to explain WTF they were doing.