(Updates are at the BOTTOM of this post)
Sorry folks, but you may have some trouble connecting to the stream today…

Apparently, we’re under attack by Microsoft. I’ve just spent the last few hours on the phone with several of their techs (who apparently think that “reboot your computer” solves all problems).

Basically, what’s happening is a computer at Microsoft’s Hotmail datacenter is flooding our broadcast servers.

Here’s a partial log from last night:

<10/19/09@20:00:26> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
<10/19/09@20:00:27> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
<10/19/09@20:00:28> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
<10/19/09@20:00:29> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
<10/19/09@20:00:30> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
<10/19/09@20:00:31> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
<10/19/09@20:01:03> [dest: 65.55.106.108] Added to Ban List
<10/19/09@20:01:16> [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
<10/19/09@20:01:17> [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
<10/19/09@20:01:18> [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
<10/19/09@20:01:19> [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
<10/19/09@20:01:20> [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting

Soon as we get this resolved, I’ll post an update.

IF you can connect to the music stream, enjoy it. If you can’t, keep trying!

Charlie

UPDATE:
8:09pm – They’re still at it on server 1, and they just DDOSed our transcoder. More details as I get them. Hang tight folks!

8:41pm – They’re now hammering away at stream 2′s server.