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 It's me, not you. Experiencing a DDOS attack (currently 2909 views) |
| Don |
| Posted: April 27th, 2020, 10:27pm |
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LocationVirginia Posts17413 Posts Per Day 1.95 |
The site may be down for slow for some of you. I'm in the middle of a distributed denial of service attack wherein 100+ computes attempt to brute-force access the site. I'm working with my server provider to isolate the issue.
Bear with.
Don
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| LC |
| Posted: April 27th, 2020, 11:42pm |
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LocationThe Great Southern Land Posts8691 Posts Per Day 1.42 |
Aha! Well, I'm glad it's not just me.  What a pain in the butt for you, Don. |
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| FrankM |
| Posted: April 28th, 2020, 2:39pm |
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LocationBetween Chair and Keyboard Posts1446 Posts Per Day 0.52 |
I don't get the point of DOS'ing a site like this. Everybody click on the ads so Don can afford Cloudflare  |
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| Zack |
| Posted: April 28th, 2020, 2:55pm |
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Of The Ancients  This place happens to be my only world.
LocationKentucky Posts5069 Posts Per Day 0.72 |
Glad I saw this. I thought my PC was finally crapping out on me. Lol |
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| eldave1 |
| Posted: April 28th, 2020, 4:32pm |
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| DustinBowcot |
| Posted: April 29th, 2020, 3:51am |
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Why are they attacking this site? Distributed seems too orchestrated for a little old writing site to me. It must be personal. |
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| Don |
| Posted: April 29th, 2020, 9:34am |
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LocationVirginia Posts17413 Posts Per Day 1.95 |
Quick update. I don't think it is personal. It is a distributed attack coming primarily from Romania and Albania. This looks like a script kiddie attack directed at the WordPress login trying to brute force the password which is what brought down the server. I've blocked that, but still hundreds of pings to the site per second slows things down.
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| Grandma Bear |
| Posted: April 29th, 2020, 9:45am |
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LocationThe Swamp... Posts8219 Posts Per Day 1.29 |
Kids stuck inside with nothing better to do than work on their hacker skills. |
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| FrankM |
| Posted: April 29th, 2020, 12:17pm |
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LocationBetween Chair and Keyboard Posts1446 Posts Per Day 0.52 |
Kids stuck inside with nothing better to do than work on their hacker skills. |
The part of a script kiddie assault that takes the most skill is hitting the CTRL and V keys at the same time. |
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| Grandma Bear |
| Posted: May 8th, 2020, 11:22am |
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LocationThe Swamp... Posts8219 Posts Per Day 1.29 |
Still having issues? Portal loads fine. Individual threads seem to be okay. Recent posts does not work. I also typed something lengthy up in the plague thread earlier, but when I went to post it, the website timed out and my post got lost. |
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| eldave1 |
| Posted: May 8th, 2020, 6:09pm |
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Still having issues? Portal loads fine. Individual threads seem to be okay. Recent posts does not work. I also typed something lengthy up in the plague thread earlier, but when I went to post it, the website timed out and my post got lost. |
HAving problems today myself - timing o ut |
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| Don |
| Posted: May 8th, 2020, 6:25pm |
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Another attack. I've reset the server. We should be good for a while, now.
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| LC |
| Posted: May 17th, 2020, 8:46pm |
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LocationThe Great Southern Land Posts8691 Posts Per Day 1.42 |
Is it just me, or is the site slow again? I'm having trouble opening some stuff and getting time-outs. Go on, say it's just me.  |
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| Zack |
| Posted: May 18th, 2020, 10:34am |
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Of The Ancients This place happens to be my only world.
LocationKentucky Posts5069 Posts Per Day 0.72 |
Not just you, Libby. I'm still having issues as well. |
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| Don |
| Posted: May 18th, 2020, 1:15pm |
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LocationVirginia Posts17413 Posts Per Day 1.95 |
Not just you, Libby. I'm still having issues as well. |
Hi Folks, Apologies for the issues. I've bounced the server and am investigating. Don |
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