On: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

[alienth]

We're mostly recovered, at this time.

[sk3tch → alienth]

How certain are you guys that it wasn't the sheer levels of traffic due to the ongoing Boston situation?

[alienth → sk3tch]

Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.

[jordn → alienth]

What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?

[alienth → jordn]

They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.

[salimmadjd → alienth]

Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects

[Sayter → jordn]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670

[windsurfer → alienth]

You might be overzealous with your bot blocking. I'm being told I'm actually a robot:

    you appear to be a bad robot
    check out the rules for robots. thanks.

[wjamesg → windsurfer]

I believe I've had this happen when using a VPN service (though I could be mistaken)

[Pyramids → windsurfer]

Same here, are you using RES or anything else which might increase request volume?

[jaredmcateer → Pyramids]

I use RES, not having any issues.

[windsurfer → alienth]

Seems like you're still down...

[mh- → windsurfer]

now that is probably just getting back to their regular intermittent availability.