Tiscali new Cloud9?
King Queen
coincidental then I had a look at the Tiscali status page:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/status.cgi
13:43:00
Sun Jan 27 2002
We are currently experiencing a Denial Of Service attack on our
infrastructure. Tiscali customers can still surf the internet and send
and receive email, but may experience intermittent difficulties when
accessing the Tiscali website. We apologise for any inconvenience and
are working around the clock to get the service back to normal.
Thing is either they've got another problem they aren't telling us
about or the DoS is also affecting other operations - anything that
uses the Internet - mail, news, WWW ...
if it's the same people who took on Cloud 9 I hope they realise that
Tiscali is a completely different matter.
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Paul Gregg
> if it's the same people who took on Cloud 9 I hope they realise that
> Tiscali is a completely different matter.
The words: red, flag, bull spring to mind. You really shouldn't say
things like this. A DDOS against even some big players isn't that
difficult - remember this time 2 years ago? Yahoo/CNN/Ebay all taken out
on the same day.
(Thats even if C9 were taken down by a DOS - which isn't certain given
subsequent revelations and actions - see ispreview.co.uk's forums).
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King Queen
<kq.larts...@kingqueen.org.uk> wrote:
>Tiscali have ground to a halt today. I thought it was just
>coincidental then I had a look at the Tiscali status page:
>
>http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/status.cgi
>
>13:43:00
>Sun Jan 27 2002
>
>We are currently experiencing a Denial Of Service attack on our
>infrastructure. Tiscali customers can still surf the internet and send
>and receive email, but may experience intermittent difficulties when
>accessing the Tiscali website. We apologise for any inconvenience and
>are working around the clock to get the service back to normal.
...And now the message has disappeared, almost as if it never
happened.
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Norbert Lammertz
<kq.larts...@kingqueen.org.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:01:47 +0000, King Queen
><kq.larts...@kingqueen.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>Tiscali have ground to a halt today. I thought it was just
>>coincidental then I had a look at the Tiscali status page:
>>
>>http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/status.cgi
>>
>>13:43:00
>>Sun Jan 27 2002
>>
>>We are currently experiencing a Denial Of Service attack on our
>>infrastructure. Tiscali customers can still surf the internet and send
>>and receive email, but may experience intermittent difficulties when
>>accessing the Tiscali website. We apologise for any inconvenience and
>>are working around the clock to get the service back to normal.
>
>...And now the message has disappeared, almost as if it never
>happened.
They have doctored the service status page in the past.
From the end of November there were various severe problems with
different aspects of their services, until 13th December, and then all
those announcements were replaces with something dated 3rd December,
saying Everything works OK, as if that had been the case all the time
since then.
When I saw that I was very pleased that I had printouts of the various
announcements of problems I am currently suing them for.
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Graham Drabble
news:101221868...@eurus.uk.clara.net:
> In article <kiea5ugt5drsugsoh...@4ax.com>,
> kq.larts...@kingqueen.org.uk says...
>: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:01:47 +0000, King Queen
>: <kq.larts...@kingqueen.org.uk> wrote:
>:
>: >Tiscali have ground to a halt today. I thought it was just
>: >coincidental then I had a look at the Tiscali status page:
>: ...And now the message has disappeared, almost as if it never
>: happened.
>
> That site 404's for me.
Apparently it is now only open to those on Tiscali dial-ups. I don't
think that this is intended to be permanent.
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King Queen
<abuse.c...@gmx.net> wrote:
>They have doctored the service status page in the past.
>
>From the end of November there were various severe problems with
>different aspects of their services, until 13th December, and then all
>those announcements were replaces with something dated 3rd December,
>saying Everything works OK, as if that had been the case all the time
>since then.
>
>When I saw that I was very pleased that I had printouts of the various
>announcements of problems I am currently suing them for.
Good luck! Tiscali's news server also seems to be dropping a lot of my
posts...
It's back up:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/status.cgi
09:29:26
Tue Jan 29 2002
Tiscali Announcement: Denial of Service Attack Tiscali UK, a
subsidiary of Tiscali, the pan- European Internet communication
company, experienced a denial of service attack over the weekend of
26th and 27th January 2002. Tiscali reacted promptly by putting
together an internal taskforce to resolve the issue. Access to the
Tiscali website was temporarily affected on Saturday but was quickly
restored for Tiscali access customers. As a precautionary measure,
Tiscali has restricted visitor access to its portal. This restriction
is temporary and Tiscali is working hard to ensure that full access
for all visitors to the portal will be restored shortly. Tiscali UK is
in contact with other ISPs and the UK police to investigate the origin
of the attack. Tiscali UK apologise for any inconvenience that may
have been caused.
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Andy Mabbett
<kq.larts...@kingqueen.org.uk> writes
>Tiscali
Hello to everyone who found this thread via the link to the Google
archive, on The Register.
You might also want to read:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tiscali+recorded+author:Andy+author:Ma
bbett&hl=en&scoring=r&selm=XtSnTtBGD2R8EwAV%40pigsonthewing.org.uk&rnum=2
>
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I'm downloading http://*.* - I may be some time.
James Cliff
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:02:15 +0000, Norbert Lammertz
> <abuse.c...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >They have doctored the service status page in the past.
> >
> >From the end of November there were various severe problems with
> >different aspects of their services, until 13th December, and then all
> >those announcements were replaces with something dated 3rd December,
> >saying Everything works OK, as if that had been the case all the time
> >since then.
> >
> >When I saw that I was very pleased that I had printouts of the various
> >announcements of problems I am currently suing them for.
>
> Good luck! Tiscali's news server also seems to be dropping a lot of my
> posts...
>
> It's back up:
>
> http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/status.cgi
>
DDoS within the last few days.
There's a copy of the status page txt at
http://security.the-scream.co.uk/thread/?4092
Packet loss started (being reported by users) on the Saturday morning,
Tiscali said the DDoS started on Friday night.
Packet loss reported at (with traceroutes)
http://security.the-scream.co.uk/thread/?4073
JC
sil
accessing the internet (apart from those who are trying to access
Tiscali 'portal') but there are continuing packet loss problems,
especially noticable on the Tiscali ADSL service :\
from http://www.the-scream.co.uk front page story
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/status.cgi
13:43:00
Sun Jan 27 2002
We are currently experiencing a Denial Of Service attack on our
infrastructure. Tiscali customers can still surf the internet and send
and receive email, but may experience intermittent difficulties when
accessing the Tiscali website. We apologise for any inconvenience and
are working around the clock to get the service back to normal.
13:05:06
Sat Jan 26 2002
We are currently experiencing problems with access to our portal.
Customers may experience problems with accessing out it from outside
our networks.
The Network Operations Centre are currently investigating the problem
and we hope to resolve it soon
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.