Stack Overflow was down for a long time here, probably about an hour.
What was the cause?
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Our network provider is experiencing a bit of increased traffic. We and they are investigating.
We have partially mitigated a DDoS attack against our network. We are continuing to watch traffic.
198.252.206.140 dba.stackexchange.com
to my hosts file and can now access that site.