Bluetrait

A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) of unknown origin started Monday, 2006-03-20, at about 16:00 MET. It continued with variable bandwidth and some interruptions up to Sunday, 2006-03-26, 10:00 MET. A minor attack still continues. Upstream providers reported traffic peaks of about 1.3 Gigabits per second on a single line.
This was enough to overload our lines, causing communication problems between our border routers and the upstream providers, and thereby interrupting all services for a short period on 2006-03-20.

The attack was targeted on the nameservers of Joker.com. Whether the attacker meant to attack Joker.com or a single customer domain is still an open question.

About 15% of our Domains have been affected by reduced nameserver performance and availability during the attack.

We responded by adding more nameservers, some of them being hosted in external data centers with own DDoS protection. We reserved more bandwidth for Joker.com exlusively, and implemented automatic systems to react on certain incidents. These measures seem to have helped, since the later attacks did not affect our systems as much as the first one.

In the near future, we will do more to protect your domains and our business against such criminal activities. One of these measures is to significantly increase and spread the amount of Joker.com nameservers available for Joker.com domains. There are more activities which we cannot announce publicly for security reasons.

We apologize for the impact this all had on those of you making use of our nameservers. We do our best to fight such offenses, which showed another order of magnitude than experienced ever before.

Your Team of Joker.com