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The Breakroom => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: Brass_Machine on October 08, 2014, 10:24:39 PM

Title: recent outage
Post by: Brass_Machine on October 08, 2014, 10:24:39 PM

Hey guys,

We just experienced a recent outage. Our hosting was hit by a ddos attack. Seems to be resolved right now.

Eric.

Title: Re: recent outage
Post by: JD on October 08, 2014, 11:31:32 PM

Eric, thought something odd last night ( Wednesday in UK ) couldn't log on to my favorite site.
Glad all well again, one question what is ddos   :scratch:.
Thanks for all your hard work in keeping this great site running smoothly.
 John   

Title: Re: recent outage
Post by: Stilldrillin on October 09, 2014, 02:30:53 AM

Hi Eric.

Thanks for saying so. I wondered what was wrong.......  :scratch:

David D

Title: Re: recent outage
Post by: John Rudd on October 09, 2014, 03:31:26 AM

Quote from: JD on October 08, 2014, 11:31:32 PM

Eric, thought something odd last night ( Wednesday in UK ) couldn't log on to my favorite site.
 John   

Ditto.....
I just wish these morons could find something more constructive to wirh their time.......

Title: Re: recent outage
Post by: rockknocker on October 09, 2014, 03:51:45 PM

JD,

DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service

It usually means that a hacker, or group of hackers, got control of 10,000 or 1,000,000 or 100,000,000 computers and commanded all of them to visit a specific website all at once. This overloads the servers that are hosting the website, often causing them to crash. Unfortunately, if the server is hosting more sites than just the website that was attacked, the attack will bring all of those websites down until the attack stops and the server is brought back online.

There are other ways to execute a DDOS attack, but I believe this is the most common.

Title: Re: recent outage
Post by: JD on October 09, 2014, 04:14:33 PM

Rockknocker, thanks for that, basically some little scrote with nothing better to do.
John