Sounds like another DDoS attack. That's been happen fairly frequently over the past couple of months.
I thought that since 2.28 there was new code added that would prevent that sort of thing. Arr the attack getting more agresive?
HON is what turns people into ddosers.. You lack sunshine and women, then next thing you know.. Being a cool hacker is your real life way of putting magical spells on ogres till the next world of warcraft comes out.