Website outage on Sunday, 20 July 08

BigD · 07-21-2008, 08:20 AM

The server host was attacked twice Sunday 20 July, with denial of service attacks. There was approx an hour of downtime this morning and about 2 hours in the afternoon.

The NHTOC - NLOC server was fine - it was the providers network that was taken down.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

thunder94svt · 07-21-2008, 11:58 PM

Did you get the IP of the POS that tried the attack? burn the hackers!!!

BigD · 07-22-2008, 11:37 AM

It had nothing to do with our server, but rather was an attack on another server that brought the Internet Provider's backbone connection down. I could access our server with through other means, but the connections to the nameserver were hosed, thus trying to connect via nloc.net did not work.

Silver_2000 · 07-22-2008, 01:56 PM

Nice description Dwight - I wish there was a way to get back at the attackers BUT the size of the attack pretty much assures that it was a network of computers all acting as one - often called a bot net

The BEST thing everyone can do is be sure your PCs are running decent antivirus - Most people only realize they are infected when the happen to get infected by poorly written virus or the virus breaks itself or something else - if you were infected by a well written virus that was sending attacks at a low enough pace to NOT overwhelm your connection - you would never know .....

so PLEASE make sure you are running good software to prevent this crap

07-21-2008, 08:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
BigD President Paid Member Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 4,096 NLOC member #: 583 View this user's gallery iTrader: 4 / 100%	Website outage on Sunday, 20 July 08 The server host was attacked twice Sunday 20 July, with denial of service attacks. There was approx an hour of downtime this morning and about 2 hours in the afternoon. The NHTOC - NLOC server was fine - it was the providers network that was taken down. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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07-21-2008, 11:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
thunder94svt Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saint Louis Missouri Posts: 346 View this user's gallery iTrader: 0 / 0%	Did you get the IP of the POS that tried the attack? burn the hackers!!!

07-22-2008, 11:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
BigD President Paid Member Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 4,096 NLOC member #: 583 View this user's gallery iTrader: 4 / 100%	It had nothing to do with our server, but rather was an attack on another server that brought the Internet Provider's backbone connection down. I could access our server with through other means, but the connections to the nameserver were hosed, thus trying to connect via nloc.net did not work.

07-22-2008, 01:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
Silver_2000 Former Lightning Owner Paid Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Carrollton TX Posts: 579 NLOC member #: 688 View this user's gallery iTrader: 0 / 0%	Nice description Dwight - I wish there was a way to get back at the attackers BUT the size of the attack pretty much assures that it was a network of computers all acting as one - often called a bot net The BEST thing everyone can do is be sure your PCs are running decent antivirus - Most people only realize they are infected when the happen to get infected by poorly written virus or the virus breaks itself or something else - if you were infected by a well written virus that was sending attacks at a low enough pace to NOT overwhelm your connection - you would never know ..... so PLEASE make sure you are running good software to prevent this crap