Not even making a joke, I literally just had one of my most productive before i go to work mornings in a while. I went to HN, saw the error... said "darn", then went and finished a document i've been putting off.<p>so ummm... thanks to whoever is responsible for the DDoS
Our hosting provider reported a ~10 Gbps DDoS, and null routed our IP with a BGP update.<p>While we are using CloudFlare now, switching to them isn't what caused the outage.
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Is it cloudflare's stuff?<p>(“Checking your browser” is just two redirects if you wonder)
When I switched to Cloudflare there was a period where the SSL certificate served by Cloudflare did not yet contain my domain name. It took several minutes for this to be resolved during which my site was pretty much inaccessible. I assume something similar may have happened here.<p>In the end it all worked out, but I was a bit surprised that Cloudflare does not at least warn you about this when you enable SSL.
Comcast still appears to be serving stale DNS, just a note here. So if you're on Comcast you may still have trouble loading the site (and therefore no even seeing this comment) if you're on Comcast. OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, and level 3 are all up to date. Hopefully Comcast will be flushing the stale DNS info for news.ycombinator.com shortly.<p>[Update 9:55AM PST] Looks like Comcast's stale DNS is still in place.
Traffic seems to be going through cloudflare. Probably to defend against a DDoS. Hitting the URL directly gave me an untrusted certificate. Going via <a href="http://ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/</a> works fine.
For anyone still having trouble, it's likely due to evil caching name servers ignoring our 30 minute TTL.<p>If you're still having trouble: <a href="https://gist.github.com/kogir/7237218" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/kogir/7237218</a>
I think this was a scam set up by PG himself to make us hackers do some proper work for a change. Hell, it worked.<p>I bet bitcoin that they finally managed to fix Obamacare.<p>Was this an example of <i>kindness through cruelty</i>?
I'm getting connection timed out here. Had to hop on an AWS box and get on here via Lynx. Not sure why lynx is fine but my work network isn't.