mastodon.social, mastodon.online and joinmastodon.org were hit by a DDoS yesterday, thankfully joinmastodon.org was already behind Fastly so it didn't have any impact on it. We've now moved mastodon.online behind Fastly and will do the same with mastodon.social soon.
@Gargron
It appears not to have been a DDOS as much as someone using DO to set up some badly configured instances. Reported it to them and it should have gone away sometime after 9 am yesterday.
Hope that helped!
@WarcabbitFS Can you provide more details on that? I’m not sure it was that.
@Gargron Honesly, not really, just reported it to someone I know at DO, they went over and told infosec, and Infosec said that's what they found.
@Gargron I wish I could say more, you know? Maybe Infosec found something else, maybe I heard it wrong. It stopped, though?
@Gargron did you find out what was the cause 2 months ago?
Any not expected issues with a "middleman" like fastly?