We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider

Does Fastmail actually have multiple providers?<p>One of their mail exchangers, web site, SMTP, POP, and IMAP servers are all on the same &#x2F;24, that belongs to NYI (AS11403) and according to the BGP table is not multihomed.<p>Historical DNS records from last two years also show they weren&#x27;t changed.<p>I guess, &quot;primary&quot; is still a technically correct qualifier for the &quot;sole&quot; provider.

This is especially worse for the Fastmail team in Melbourne that were likely going to the pub for the first time in a LONG time.

From the status post, they use the term &quot;primary&quot; which implies they might have more than one network provider. Unclear whether Fastmail is the target, or if the attack is against someone else network-adjacent to them and is just large enough to congest the provider. If the latter, wonder what prevents just withdrawing the announcement and resuming service using the secondary or tertiary provider?

Good luck to the FastMail team! Long time user, there is no better email service! Hope whoever is attacking them gets struck by lightning.

Out of curiosity, in situation like these, if you send an e-mail to someone with a Fastmail account, does it eventually get to them or will it bounce back?

Could this be linked to truthsocial.com ? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;builtwith.com&#x2F;detailed&#x2F;truthsocial.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;builtwith.com&#x2F;detailed&#x2F;truthsocial.com</a>

Heh. Could not log in, check HN, it&#x27;s the top story.

Hugops, attacks are never fun.

From Twitter:<p>&gt; We&#x27;re seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider. We&#x27;re working with them to block the attack and restore access.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Fastmail&#x2F;status&#x2F;1451374471344918533" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Fastmail&#x2F;status&#x2F;1451374471344918533</a>

First time I can remember them down.

Fastmail now reports they&#x27;re &quot;under attack&quot;:<p>&gt; We&#x27;re seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider. We&#x27;re working with them to block the attack and restore access.

More and more services keep going down on fastmailstatus.com. Some that don&#x27;t work (for me) are still marked as up, i.e. CalDAV. Edit: CalDAV is now marked as down too.

&quot;Services have been restored and we are investigating the underlying cause. No mail has been lost. Thanks for your patience.&quot;<p>This was 3 hours ago, but I can&#x27;t connect to the server. I&#x27;m receiving emails though.

Sending and receiving works from Sweden right now. Maybe there was a longer than usual delay, but hard to know.

It&#x27;s back up for me, status page doesn&#x27;t say anything new, though.

Interesting, Runbox is under attack too apparently

oh, i had that page bookmarked but didn&#x27;t notice until now it has a feed too. subscribed.

Omg not a good look … a commercial e-mail provider…. IMAP and web are down. Where is the failover?<p><i>hugs</i> best of luck to the ops team

Since Fastmail is the topic here:<p>Have any other Fastmail users been finding lately that their messages have been getting flagged by recipients&#x27; spam filters more than before?<p>I&#x27;ve been using Fastmail since January, but getting flagged as spam has only seemed to be a significant issue for me for the past couple of months.

Well this explains a lot. Couldn’t access my email earlier and now I know why. Fuck the chicken shit little script kiddies causing a ddos right now, bunch’a fuckin children.

Fastmail was pretty good while I was a customer, but this sort of thing is partially why I switched to Google Workspace. Google might be terrible for privacy but at least I can trust them to not get hacked or knocked offline. If they ever decide to randomly lock my account or anything I can always just point my domain back at Fastmail. Good luck to them and hopefully they&#x27;ll be back online soon!