Xname.org suffering a massive DDoS
It appears that Xname.org one of the largest DNS servers / hosting providers have suffered a massive distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). HITB's DNS is provided by Xname, as such, users may have difficulities connecting to *.hackinthebox.org and *.hitb.org for the time being. Here's the notice from the Xname.org site:
XName is temporarily closed since 08:00PM CEST yesterday evening. We were experiencing the largest DDoS we ever had on both ns0 and ns1 IP addresses, forcing our upstream providers to cut off XName servers in order to preserve their other customers.
