On 18/03/2008, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We had some sort of network outage starting a bit
after midnight UTC;
heavy packet loss (33%-39% range) was visible on a number of networks,
and the Tampa servers became difficult to reach for a time.
Additionally, there was some DST packet overload on our primary load
balancer, making the wikis inaccessible through it.
Packet loss was largely reduced by about 01:05 UTC; some poking at the
load balancer apparently reset things to where it was happy with the
network again by around 01:18 UTC.
Someone suggests we pissed off the operators of the Storm botnet:
http://nailo19.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/wikipedia-hacked/
[[:en:Storm botnet]] was the Featured Article on Saturday ...
- d.