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Another DoS #net

🕛︎ - 2024-06-01

It looks like I got hit with another of these DNS DoS things again this morning:

Smokeping graph showing increased latency on my LAN to the router from 8:00 until around 9:00Smokeping graph showing increased latency to my VPS clara from 8:00 until almost 10:00Graph of VPS clara's network bandwith usage showing a big spike above 60 Mbit/sGraph showing CPU spike on clara in the same timeAnother graph showing a CPU spike on the other VPS antonNetwork traffic graph showin a spike on the other VPS anton as well, only 8 Mbits/s thoughGraph showing packets per second spiking on anton in the same timespan, above 20K pps

I still have no idea what this is about.

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