This was posted on SolidTrusPay's Blog (http://www.solidtrustnews.com/?p=127)
Basically, they have been under DDOS attack and are working to resolve it.
Site Access Update from Server
Posted in August 12, 2009 10:41 pm
On August 11th Black Lotus received complaints of service degredation to the web site
http://www.solidtrustpay.com that were not detected by the network sensors. It was initially thought that the server was offline for unexplained reasons. After connecting a KVM and checking traffic on the server locally it was revealed that there was a very small attack that was somehow causing service daemons to stop responding. Black Lotus management later determined that the source IP’s were spoofed in such a way that the routers could not detect the spoof, a method never before seen.
On August 12th at 1:41AM Pacific, Black Lotus Leadership Team had manually filtered the attack and brought the site back online although with significant performance detriment. During the course of the early morning the attack shifted into a very large infrasturcture attack against Black Lotus and upstream provider Peer1 Network prompting them to null route the IP address. From there packet levels reached and began fluctuating at levels of approximately 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 packets per second. The Black Lotus Enterprise network is rated for a total capacity of approximately 2,000,000 packets per second.
Black Lotus then ordered the site placed into global distribution mode at 6:29AM Pacific in order to facilitate the larger packet loads. Peer1 accepted the order but ultimately failed to route the traffic back to Black Lotus citing concerns that 2,000,000+ packets was above a level they could safely handle. Throughout the course of the day Leadership Team began ordering conference calls with the upstream NOC to negotiate lifting of the null routes.
By evening the routing issue was in the hands of Leadership Team and upstream engineers who were conducting manual, deep level analysis of the traffic to determine what methods could be implemented to reduce the flow of traffic to a more manageable level.
Time to full resolution is currently undetermined.
This post has been edited by winkiton: Aug 13 2009, 12:01 AM