If you're obsessive like I am, you've noticed that nyaatorrents has been up and down. Yesterday I got curious so I left a copy of pingplotter running monitoring it.

It's interesting. The route comes up and down a lot, but the point that's breaking isn't the last step, not even close. It's a step named "staminus.net", about 7 steps before nyaa.se (a synonym).

Anyway, all last night, the pattern was that this link would be down for 20 minutes or half an hour, then come up for a few seconds (typically half a minute but sometimes up to 4 minutes) and then go down again. I suspect someone there is working on a fix for something; they bring it up briefly for a test, which has always failed, so they bring it down again and work on it some more.

The web site for staminus.net says it's all about protecting customers from DDOS's. I wonder if someone has been trying to attack Nyaatorrents, and the guys at Staminus are trying to find an adequate block rule?

The site came up again this morning about 9 (my time) and just went down again at 2 (my time) so I guess they're making another try. Unless they find an answer, probably it's going to be up-and-down all night again, mostly down.

UPDATE: I assume that the global routing announcement for "nyaatorrents.org" and "nyaa.se" is to send it to staminus.net, which is rerouting it to the actual server farm that hosts nyaa.se, located in Montreal.

That's pretty elaborate for what is basically a hobby site. Did nyaatorrents get attacked by a DDOS before, forcing them to take this kind of action?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 03:31 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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