The server hosting our forum is currently under a denial of service attack. That is why it is running slow as molasses on that icebound ship near Antarctica...

but not desiring to profess a negative witness.

It appears to be over, for now.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

The little swirley circle just kept swirling round and round and.......

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

we're on a shared server and no telling who all else is on there. There's a CMS or two that have well known vulnerabilities that may have come under attack due to site managers not updating their systems. Outside of going full bore private server there's not much we can do about it. The team's been doing a pretty darn good job so far, it's been going on off and on for a while now. Each time they whack a mole another pops up. It seems to be down to a dull roar again. The logs on the D.O.S. attack are interesting - a LOT of stuff being thrown our way. Thankfully there's a good tech support group that's on board to fight 'em off.

There's another couple switches thrown to see if we can keep the idiots at bay. Something else that seems to have happened is our spam filter got clogged in the middle of the fray and let 'em in again. It's cleaned out and running again.

Thanks to all our moderators for helping to keep the trash tossed out.

Last night I had a "Red Warning" pop up when I tried to check in. It denied me access and told me to stay away from here.

Interesting. My guess it was due to the hostile D.O.S. attack on the server. My charitable feelings toward malicious hackers and all spammers are notably lacking... As far as I can tell, our security was not seriously breached and only was compromised by the flooding of the server's ability to check in with our spam control service because of the D.O.S. attack. It's all up and running fine this morning - knock on wood.

Here's the latest bulletin from the server company, it shows the percentage of packets received by the firewall that are authentic traffic vs those that are dropped as part of the D.O.S. attack :

Total Packets / Percentage

Received 339292163 N/A

Forwarded 11568637 / 3.41%

Replied 238500 / 0.07%

Dropped 327485026 / 96.52%

So we're still under a considerable barrage, but they've got the firewall tweaked to handle it at this point in time. Everything seems to be working normally this morning.

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Sincerely,

Hobie