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Looks like we've been just fine with the new setup.
 
Whao just sat down, cracked my third can on thirsty Thursday tried to log back on..Boom im an electrician. Not bad though cos i know how to fit dimmer switches. next time theres a crash Dan can u link us with the joinery site, I need to make some casement windows..Cheers.
 
Still actively fighting. We seem to be winning again right now.
 
Mines still being very intermittent. I need my forum fix!!!
 
They're not going to give up just yet.

So I'm protecting the forums for the long-term. This isn't something we'll undo next month once it goes quiet. We'll need this protection forever now.

So main thing is get the forums stay online. Then workaround everything we've had to lose feature-wise for the sake of gaining stability.
 
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Mines still being very intermittent. I need my forum fix!!!
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That'll be a DNS cache issue.

Unfortunately every time we're offline for a bit, if your IPS or network or whatever takes a cache of the site while it's down, sometimes it'll load you that version even when it's actually back online.

Those sorts of things just iron themselves out as new cache versions are taken.

But we have been offline a here and there today since about 5pm
 
Thats a notable botnet....
i was under the impression most were being kept under 25/30k to stop em being noticed?

not to mention its taken rather awhile to amass that many bots!
Unless its someone with a bitmining community?

I cant even see why you would be targetted dan!
Pretty extreme even from a competitor!!

hope you get sorted.
 
Killy Bing said:
Thats a notable botnet....
i was under the impression most were being kept under 25/30k to stop em being noticed?

not to mention its taken rather awhile to amass that many bots!
Unless its someone with a bitmining community?
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Ummmm is this English?
 
Thanks for all the hard work going on behind the scenes Dan hope its all sorted soon....regards Turnpin:biggrin:
 
Good luck Dan and the double clever people on the team, Looks like its been a grueler.
 
Have you tried one of them clever electricians? Bet they could sort it.
 
Dan said:
That'll be a DNS cache issue.

Unfortunately every time we're offline for a bit, if your IPS or network or whatever takes a cache of the site while it's down, sometimes it'll load you that version even when it's actually back online.

Those sorts of things just iron themselves out as new cache versions are taken.

But we have been offline a here and there today since about 5pm
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Cheers Dan
 
i was on it milling around for an hour. felt a bit too far from home and too civilized..
 
TT any tips?
 

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My guess is it's a DDOS ransom attack, it won't be long before some keyboard warrior is asking for some money to stop/help with these attacks.
Make sure you offer to pay him in cash and we'll all turn up to pay the geeky little ****er what he's asked for - only not in sterling...
 
Looking into the blocked thing now. We just need to relax the settings a little but am checking on how far we dare to go.

It's obviously a national holiday in the USA today (independence day) so support replies are very slow. I might need to pick this back up again on monday.
 
Well done dan for getting us back up and running. You deserve a medal. Il get you a drink in the arms later if you have time...
 
Yup, we've won.

We've been getting attacks off and on and you wouldn't even notice it website-wise now.

I need to reconfigure a few things like image uploading for newbies, email notifications via Amazon SES, and some other things (take them off-site to spread the load), and that's it we're back to normal then.

You might find the odd half hour or 15 minutes downtime if we get a massive attack while we configure the brand new server. My guy has spent 12 hours configuring firewalls and ports and things I didn't know existed until yesterday. But we need to see some attacks to route them and whatnot. So far they've not been strong enough to do anything and we've routed them fine. But if they pull some massive random thing off, it'll just be 10 minutes or so while we sod it off and we'll be back online.

Seems we're okay now though. :)
 
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So is it a targeted thing at your sites or just somebody just trying to invade the world?
 
No it's targeted right at me mate. Not sure why. Or who.

The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.

I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).
 
Thats a bit sh!tty then. Some real saddos out there in the world, shame they dont have something better to do.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits.
 
So basically you were on Holliday again on the beach and after partying for so long you lost all your belongings and could not return quicker to uk to press the reset bottom on your fan that's cooling down your computer system !!!!!??? Not good Dan :) lol
 
Seems a bit odd to be targeted, you annoyed any computer geniuses recently?
 
Dan said:
No it's targeted right at me mate. Not sure why. Or who.

The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.

I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).
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they are all fighting for freeweeeedooooom :) lol
 
Email notifications are now back up and running. In fact all emails should now be working fine.
 
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