DDOS attack

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You also know as a server admin, You wouldn't tell people you are having a problem but blame it on a doss attack. That way you can't be blamed for a router or switch falue or some internal traffic. Sure you tell the boss but you don't tell the masses or they will loss faith in your skill.

Filtering out traffic is pretty easy on any firewall that is why pass doss attacks come and go and we end user never really notice them.
This seems to be something different or a really wide spread Doss attack.

Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere. When there's hardware failure, they tell us that. They have a history of telling us when it's on their end.