CTDATA Servers Temporarily Knocked Off-Line by Massive Internet Server Attack
Today from 3:00am to 1:00pm Eastern Time, CTDATA's main web and mail servers were off-line due to a routing problem that affected our colocation provider. At this time, we believe that the routing problem was part of the traffic surge associated with the attempted exploit of Microsoft SQL Servers that began at midnight. As Slashdot said:
...UUNet and Internap are being hit very hard. This is the cause of major connectivity problems being experienced worldwide.... This has effectively disabled 5 of the 13 root nameservers.
We apologize for any inconvenience this problem may have caused our customers, and we will update this story in the event that any new information about this incident becomes available.