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I am in the Dallas Texas area. Four days ago (when the DDOS distributed denial of service extortion attack on several email providers started), I was unable to access Fastmail services erratically for a couple of days. But the last couple of days Fastmail has been solid here, with no difficulties.
This is a DDOS attack on several providers, and in these cases the attack often floods the network ISP connections used by Fastmail with a huge number of data packets, or they attack the DNS system to prevent network address resolution. Based on previous DDOS attack public reports by Fastmail staff, they have a robust system with equipment and procedure which will block most such attacks. But it's impossible for them to fully block all such attacks. The current internet is not robust when under a determined attack by criminals.
Bill
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