OrangeIsTrouble
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Or has it been not loading up the last few days????
Server down or something???
Or has it been not loading up the last few days????
Server down or something???
Denial of service...It was indeed an attack. I PM'ed John Pierce about it and he said they were having a "refusal of service" problem and they were working on it. That was yesterday. Obviously they now have it solved. I'd sure like to know who's hacking our site.
Ok, nerd language apart, can we put this in english?Denial of service...
A denial of service attack is where a determined attacker repeatedly attempts to connect to a resource, making it so that nobody else can use the resource. A DDOS, or distributed denial of service, is where the attacker uses a network of attackers, generally the compromised computers of the computer illiterate, to attack a single target.grishnav wrote:Ok, nerd language apart, can we put this in english?Denial of service...
So what happened? Who stopped us from gathering on our wonderful virtual living room?
Here, let me Google that for yougrishnav wrote:Ok, nerd language apart, can we put this in english?Denial of service...
This is something akin to the technology version of the Cloward-Piven Strategy to destroy an economy by overwhelming it with impossible demands. But seriously, what appeared to have happened was that the discussion forum was disabled but the main website was accessible, as were a couple other sub-pages that nobody really uses. It's pretty obvious that some anti-gunners were deliberately sabotaging our site, and my guess is it will happen again. :cuss: I just wish there were a way to catch the SOB --- they do this because they know it's hard to get caught.Poosharker wrote:A denial of service attack is where a determined attacker repeatedly attempts to connect to a resource, making it so that nobody else can use the resource. A DDOS, or distributed denial of service, is where the attacker uses a network of attackers, generally the compromised computers of the computer illiterate, to attack a single target.grishnav wrote:Ok, nerd language apart, can we put this in english?Denial of service...
So what happened? Who stopped us from gathering on our wonderful virtual living room?
The effect is similar to having you and 5000 of your friends show up to a city council meeting and repeatedly talking, such that nobody else may talk or hear what's going on.
w0rd.It's been as stable as a psychiatric patient off his meds...