近期搬瓦工、DMIT和博鳌云马来西亚VPS等商家的 CN2 GIA 线路遭受持续攻击

Hello,

While troubleshooting this issue over the past few days, we have discovered that the root cause of it is a periodic UDP flood targeting hundreds of IPs simultaneously.

As each flood is very short in duration (a few seconds per target IP) and relatively small number of packets per second (around 1000 pps), it was not enough for our systems to trigger alerts and engage countermeasures.

Regretfully, China Telecom’s CN2 GT/GIA networks are not capable of handling floods of this type and scale. It simply does not have the required capacity.

As we now better understand the situation, we have connected with a few companies who provide China-based DDoS/flood protection, as well as reached out to several people in the industry that we know dealt with similar attacks in the past.

While we understand that this situation is frustrating for everyone involved, I would like to reassure you that we are working 24/7 to get a solution in place — as soon as humanly possible. From the feedback we have received so far, we should be able to set up a decent protection within the next few days.

Meanwhile, while we are working with relevant organizations on a permanent solution, we have made changes to our infrastructure to be able to better absorb the floods and deal with them on our side while we are setting up a permanent solution. Today we have also asked our upstream providers to configure simple ACLs to filter out the specific UDP floods, and it seems to have worked reasonably well. We will adjust these ACLs if/when necessary.

After the above changes have been made today, the situation is stable and all services are up and running normally. But we are not resting and continuing our work internally and externally to acquire resources needed for permanent and reliable filtering.

Thank you.