Intermittent BridgeStation Access

The BridgeStation service experienced a short period of intermittent access from around 11:30 to 14:00 on 12/10/2012.

This was due to a suspected denial of service attack which tripped the redundant server. When working normally this redundant server will take over all BridgeStation traffic and users will not notice any change. Today though users experienced intermittent access, being logged out expectantly and an inability to reach the BridgeStation websites as traffic was being switched back and forth between the two servers.

Our hardware supplier are investigating the type of attack and why it caused this issue.