Increased traffic on www.prx.org

Incident Report for PRX

Resolved

We applied changes that are effectively blocking this unexpected traffic.

Posted Jan 05, 2016 - 16:17 EST

Monitoring

We have seen increased traffic to prx.org, currently 20x normal, seemingly generated programmatically from specific ranges.

It resembles a DoS attack, but may be poorly created and misbehaving bots that are acting as one.

In either case, we are taking steps to block and minimize the impact of these requests, and the site is once again responsive.

Posted Jan 05, 2016 - 13:06 EST