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According to CCN (cryptocoinnews) there is DDoS attack on bitcoin.org right now

The site is unreachable from here

does this benefit the miners?

no - bitcoin.org =/= mining pool so it benefits no one in the mining difficulty sense of things.  it may muck up a new user who found this link from someone irl and want to discover btc but luckily there are places like here that can bring them up to speed.

oops, you're right
i can't access the website
i hope it's not affecting bitcoin price

What would hackers gain by a DDoS attack on bitcoin.org? There is nothing there... Just a wiki, right?

Probably just some anti-Foundation skiddie who saw this:
  https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/09/bitcoin-org-walk-down-memory-lane/

I think the first thing to do once the site's up again is to check the links then  ::)

So you are saying it is not credible that the site is sponsored by the Foundation but claims it is completely independent ... and now people are mad?

DDoS is usually a waste of resources. Just have to wait until they tucker themselves out; it's analogous to an angry child.

A pointless waste of cycles. If they just wanted to throw away electricity they should have mined alts.

Yup, its not working here as well.  :(

It's usually other peoples' resources, though. I'm getting annoyed with the ease at which DDoS  can be deployed. A way to severely limit this tool from nefarious actors is remove the number of host machines easily susceptible to becoming a bot. This can be done by automatically or easily cleaning up computers compromised by viruses, which I think is possible but requires some well thought out software and hardware designs.

The Foundation is welcome to help bitcoin.org.

As for the worry that the Foundation could try to "buy" some control over the website, I was concerned this could happen when we started having recurring costs (server) until we had alternative funding options. So currently, the sponsorship is just a "win-win" for everyone, and the Foundation thus far is only helpful.

For the record, we've had DDoS attacks on a regular basis recently and migrated to Black Lotus, but apparently this didn't help as the attackers started using UDP-flood attacks over 10gbps, which is too much for Black Lotus. The very long downtime today was far enough so we switched to other DDoS solutions for now. I'll keep monitoring what works best.

 Site still down for me, fucking no life aspies.

DNS changes may take up to 24-48 hours before being deployed worldwide.

If you ping bitcoin.org, what IP do you get? ( should be 199.83.129.139 or 199.83.131.8 )

maybe the start of the domino falling. 8) 8)

use alternative way to download client ... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=655359.msg8581889#msg8581889
you can monitoring the unavailable of a site here : http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/bitcoin.org.html

Did not you employ Cloudflare or any other CDN to deal with DDOS ?

This is sarcasm right?

Cloudflare requires the site operators to give up the encryption keys to (I believe it is) the https encryption certificate. I am not sure if this is exactly correct, however I know it has something to do with something that a user can look at to validate that they are accessing the website they intend to visit.

Hi,

The process for determining what things get posted on Bitcoin.org is very unclear and it appears to be one person who makes the decisions.  Given those circumstances and the history of the Bitcoin Foundation I certainly believe the Foundation effectively runs the site.  Vague posts by people within the inner circle do not really clarify anything.

As for the DNS you set the TTL low so you can change IP's during a DDOS so it won't take 24-48 hours for most people to switch if it is that bad.

As for clouflare, you do have to give them the SSL keys because they process the web site traffic.  Nobody is entering personal information and it is a static web site so it is unclear what the issue is there.  As far as I can tell that was an excuse used by Bitcointalk when they kept getting hacked and nobody did anything.