Within a short of time of the server going down, the indymedia IRC was buzzing with questions as dozens of people arrived to figure out what had happened and what could be done. The lost servers contained around 20 IMC sites from around Europe and Africaas well as the UK. Also taken in the 'raid' was the london icecast server with the UK radio stream that was currently being used for ESF coverage from rampART radio.

Quickly the situation was established and the DNS information (which says what computer is refered to by an internet address) was updated to point at the backup UK server. At the same time, another new radio server was located in the US and rampART radio popped back up with it's new address (see www.rampartradio.co.nr)

All this goes to prove that Indymedia is decentralised enough (but not perfectly) to survive an attack and that as a cooperative international network, we rock!

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