London Internet Exchange hit by DDoS attack

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The London Internet Exchange has been hit

The London Internet Exchange has been hit by a large scale outage this afternoon thatmany are blaming on a distributed denial of service attack.

The LINX Network Community confirmed the outage on Twitter, in spite of the organisation's pressoffice being unable to provide Computer Weekly with a statement.

The tweet said LINX

The tweet said LINX was "aware of issues on its network" and had "engineers currently working torectify this," however fell short of giving an explanation for the problem.

However, clients operating over LINX as well took to the social network to explain their ownexperiences, with a number holding a DDoS attack responsible.

UK VoIP provider Orbtalk, internet telephony firm Voxhub and telecoms company VoiceHost alsoreported being taken down by the outage. 

Others are as well blaming Juniper Networks' PTX packet switches, which the LINX network is basedon, which only went live previously today. But, with no formal statement from the organisation, wecannot confirm the cause.  

At the time of publication the network community said the LINX local area network was nowstable, nevertheless the huge number of services hit will take time to resume afterwards the failure.

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