Intermittent packet loss between ~2153Z and ~2240Z

Hi, Briefly: At around 2153Z today we started receiving alerts for basically "everything" flapping up and down due to between 20 and 30% packet loss. In short, this was due to a distributed denial of service attack aimed at another customer of our colo provider. Around 2240Z they deployed some mitigation and hopefully we don't see any more issues. TL;DR: I'd only got as far as determining that it affected "everything" before it stopped again shortly before 2200. It then started up again around 2215 and I was able to see that it also affected our colo provider. I was able to make contact and they started investigating around 2215. There wasn't anything for me to do at this point except watch. It was a large UDP DDoS, random source and destination ports. At about 2240 they put in some mitigation. The degree to which you were affected during this time will vary based on how your legit traffic reached us (or didn't reach us). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting