[AusNOG] census issues tonight

Damien Gardner Jnr rendrag at rendrag.net
Wed Aug 10 07:21:59 EST 2016


https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32281361/it-was-an-attack-census-website-collapses-due-to-malicious-foreign-hackers/#page1

Would be nice if 7 news understood that DDoS != Hacking, but they were
probably racing to get the story out ready for people waking up and didn't
bother to google ;)



On 9 August 2016 at 23:39, Nathan Brookfield <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

> If you add that to Vocus blackholing some /32's intermittently, I think we
> can safely assume that they were a tasty target [image: ☹] What an
> absolute disaster.....
>
>
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>
> Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Tim Raphael
> <raphael.timothy at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 11:25 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
> So what do we think?
>
> DDoS? (as in illegitimate traffic)
>
> I think the evidence might be there given we saw some Telstra route
> changes that look an awful lot like scrubbing near the customer tail...
>
>
> - Tim
>
>
> On 9 Aug 2016, at 9:23 PM, Michael Schipp <michaelsc at mellanox.com> wrote:
>
> So they now pay me $180?
>
> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Damian Guppy
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 11:11 PM
> *To:* Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
> Well, looks like they have given up...
>
> https://twitter.com/ABSCensus/status/762996836357419008
>
> "ABS & Census website are unavailable. The service won't be restored
> tonight. We will update you in AM. We apologise for the inconvenience."
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> Surely those 11 would be the load balancing stack in front, then again 24
> million requests lasting 10 minutes over 72hours is only ~1k requests per
> second, probably easily manageable by 11 servers with a bunch of big SQL
> boxes behind it.
>
> Tracing to the IPs gives different results.
>
> .1 includes ibm.
> .2 goes straight.
> .3 includes ibm
> .4 goes straight
> .5 includes ibm but fails to reach target
> .6... *
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:50 PM, James Braunegg <
> james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
>
> Total of 11 servers used for the application stack….
>
> https://twitter.com/oliyoung/status/761028000821288961
>
> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Co-2565VMAAZeBq.jpg
>
> Thanks Tom M for the links
>
> Kindest Regards
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Troy
> Cowin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 10:48 PM
> *To:* Colin Stubbs <colin.stubbs at equatetechnologies.com.au>; au
> snog at lists.ausnog.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
> And the rest…
>
> http://i.imgur.com/N7tlah4.png
>
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Colin Stubbs
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 8:35 PM
> *To:* Glenn Powell <glenn at glennbridge.com.au>
> *Cc:* AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
>
> $54,367.50 to be precise...
>
> https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.cn.view&CNUUID=
> 069BE127-081D-5AF9-EB096752848D31A8
>
> On 9 Aug 2016 8:14 PM, "Glenn Powell" <glenn at glennbridge.com.au> wrote:
>
> They spent $50k on a 3rd party to do load testing, I wonder what the
> success criteria of that testing looked like?
>
>
>
> On 9 Aug 2016, at 8:09 PM, Brent Paddon <brent.paddon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Only cost $9.6M to host the site...
>
> Brent
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:07 PM, James Braunegg <
> james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
>
> Dead as a doornail …. from Telstra…
>
> How sad… Now What…
>
> Kindest Regards
>
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *John
> Lindsay
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 7:52 PM
> *To:* Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au>
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
> It’s turned to glue for me.
>
> Was great an hour or so ago.
>
> John Lindsay
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> On 9 Aug 2016, at 6:51 PM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Just completed it then was super snappy for me, so assuming they either
> ramped up servers or people gave up lol.
> On 09/08/16 18:56, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>
> Their phone number too just rings out with "we're too busy, please call
> back". Probably due to aforementioned issues.. and then the few million old
> people who are trying to do it over the phone. Or people who need to call
> because they were doing it and their session died and their 9 digit code no
> longer works :/
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Troy Cowin <troy at perthsystems.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> Yep lots of various errors even earlier this morning – took about 5
> minutes of refreshing to actually get into the site. Once in though it
> worked ok, hate to see how it will handle the load now its peak hour.
>
>
> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Ben
> Cornish
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 4:28 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
> Not surprising – but anyone else seeing issues with the Census site
> tonight ?
>
> Seems Soft layer is serving up parts of this behind the scenes..
> Im seeing  504 errors from soft layer for large chunks of IP ranges – but
> not all.
>
> Anyone else seeing this ?
>
>
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