Tibtec.org, home-on-the-web for a wireless mesh network project aiding Tibetan refugees in Dharamshala, India, was reportedly the subject of a distributed denial of service attack today after being featured in Wired News. Snip from the update (I filed both reports):
Speaking to Wired News via Skype, project founder Yahel Ben-David said that while the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Tibetan Technology Center website appeared to come from IP addresses from a number of places around the world, they began immediately after scans from an IP address in China.
"There was no immediately evident single source for the attack, but it started right after an extensive series of China-based scans," said Ben-David.
The tibtec.org website was featured in a Wired News story published on Thursday about the group's efforts to build a wireless mesh network serving Tibetan exiles. The site is built with Drupal, and runs on Apache.
Link.
Image: Inside the Tibetan Technology Center's server room, an uninterruptible power supply buzzes loudly the morning after a big storm knocked out electricity. (Photo: © 2006, Xeni Jardin). Ben-David says the mesh network itself was unaffected by today's reported attack.
Previously on BoingBoing: Wireless Binds Tibetan Exiles.
Update: Ben-David said by email, "Here is the WHOIS information about the IPs involved in the attack." Info follows after the jump.
whois 220.181.200.56
[Querying whois.apnic.net]
[whois.apnic.net]
% [whois.apnic.net node-1]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.htmlinetnum: 220.181.0.0 – 220.181.255.255
netname: CHINANET-IDC-BJ
country: CN
descr: CHINANET Beijing province network
descr: China Telecom
descr: No.31,jingrong street
descr: Beijing 100032
admin-c: CH93-AP
tech-c: HC55-AP
remarks: hostmaster is not for spam complaint,
remarks: please send spam complaint to anti-spam@ns.chinanet.cn.net
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET
mnt-lower: MAINT-CHINATELECOM-BJ
status: ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE
changed: hostmaster@ns.chinanet.cn.net 20030620
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20050715
source: APNICperson: Chinanet Hostmaster
nic-hdl: CH93-AP
e-mail: anti-spam@ns.chinanet.cn.net
address: No.31 ,jingrong street,beijing
address: 100032
phone: +86-10-58501724
fax-no: +86-10-58501724
country: CN
changed: lqing@chinatelecom.com.cn 20051212
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET
source: APNICperson: Hostmaster of Beijing Telecom corporation CHINA TELECOM
nic-hdl: HC55-AP
e-mail: bjnic@bjtelecom.net
address: Beijing Telecom
address: No. 107 XiDan Beidajie, Xicheng District Beijing
phone: +86-010-58503461
fax-no: +86-010-58503054
country: cn
changed: bjnic@bjtelecom.net 20040115
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINATELECOM-BJ
source: APNIC
