There have been lots of reports and rumours circulating over the past week about attacks on Eircom's network. This morning, Eircom has addressed one aspect of this -- an outage that occurred yesterday -- with the following statement.
"Last night Eircom.net customers experienced significant congestion while browsing the web.
While it is too early to confirm, Eircom believes that it is related to an unprecedented volume of traffic deliberately directed at our network which has caused difficulties for customers over recent days.
Service has been restored to our customers since late last nights. Our technical specialists have been and will continue to work to around the clock to determine the source of the problem.
Eircom has been in contact with other operators in the Irish market to collaborate and pool technical expertise in this area."
Talk about badly worded!
Posted by: Michele Neylon | July 14, 2009 at 09:54 AM
As has been suggested else where...
How likely is it that some people may be sending Eircom a message on their dislike of deals with record labels?
Posted by: Cian | July 14, 2009 at 06:20 PM
I wonder if this is related to the packet loss issue eircom experienced in the last days
Posted by: Michael | July 15, 2010 at 05:16 PM