Slow Forums: PF Under DDOS Attack

[caffenta]

Hang in there, Greg...give em hell! The PF Sisterhood is itchin' for a fight now!

Ooh, ooh! I want front-row seat tickets!

Let's get ready to ruuumble!

 

[Dickfore]

the my pf and get posts query is still excruciatingly slow for me.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

How are things now?

 

[fluidistic]

How are things now?

Very bad for me. 8 times out of 10 I can't enter in PH and posting this message took me at least 15 minutes (I must press reload lots of times in a row just to enter the thread because I can't connect to PF).

 

[KrisOhn]

Edit: Weird double post... 0_o

And Greg, the forums are working ok now, definitely a lot slower than normal, but better than before.

 

[Dickfore]

still terrible.

 

[OmCheeto]

How are things now?

better.

What did you do?

Call Obama?

 

[OmCheeto]

Ahhh!

The connection has timed out
The server at www.physicsforums.com is taking too long to respond.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Who the heck invented this darned Internet thingy...

Is this why they didn't let Gore be President?

 

[caffenta]

still terrible.

Ditto.

 

[KrisOhn]

working perfectly for me atm.

 

[lurky]

I get the occasional delay but it's (at the moment) MUCH better. I always got delays before anyway so it could be pretty much back to normal for me.

 

[Proton Soup]

things have gone from completely useless, to barely useful.

very slow but kind of working.

 

[lurky]

Nope, still happening, just maybe about half the time. I still get timeouts.

 

[hadsed]

Something funny happens for me. I can't go back to the forum I was in after reading a post, but if I click the physicsforums.com link, it takes me back pretty quick like normal. I'm not really sure what this means...

 

[Lancelot59]

Seems to be back up to speed now. Sorta.

 

[Andre]

Delays for me couple of seconds or better.

Edit: Currently normal speeds appears to be back. (8:09 UTC)

 

[caffenta]

Seems better now. Still acts funky on occasion.

EDIT: damn. looks like I broke the forums by saying that...

 

[Andre]

Meanwhile it looks from here that all is normal. Maybe the attackers are asleep?

 

[Q_Goest]

PF loads in about 1 to 3 minutes for me if it loads at all. Normally only takes a few seconds. Been this way now for the past 48 hours.

 

[Char. Limit]

Where's Char...

He'd kick some Ninja butt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KVf49FkqHo

Sorry about that. I've been too busy kicking IRL butt to kick online butt.

 

[nismaratwork]

This is a test, let's see how it goes

edit: Not greased lightning, but MUCH better, maybe even back to normal.

edit 2: MUCH faster, but I think you're still losing some packets.

 

[micromass]

It's a lot better for me! Although the forum doesn't load in about 5% of the times. But the speed is almost back to normal!

 

[nismaratwork]

It's a lot better for me! Although the forum doesn't load in about 5% of the times. But the speed is almost back to normal!

OK, definitely just packet-loss then.

 

[Andre]

Meanwhile, it slowed down considerably again at the moment

 

[micromass]

Yes, it's going in waves. 15 minutes ago it was very fast. Now it goes slow again...

 

[nismaratwork]

Meanwhile, it slowed down considerably again at the moment

It's fast, you just need to click a few times if it's slow the first couple of times. Packet loss = even if the overall speed is good, sometimes your "signals" are not getting through; they're being dropped.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

the attack is still going strong. we have a couple more tricks up our sleeves, but the site won't be optimal until it stops completely.

 

[Mark44]

It's still very slow for me and pages sometimes fail to open - 7:30am PDT.

 

[nismaratwork]

the attack is still going strong. we have a couple more tricks up our sleeves, but the site won't be optimal until it stops completely.

If you've isolated even a few IPs that are part of a botnet... maybe you could post them here... not so that anyone would do anything active. Rather, we could configure our own firewalls to reject packets from that source, and then, if someone used that information unscrupulously... it's not on you.

"La shaiq' waqee mutlak bl kollin moumkin"(AC)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

If you've isolated even a few IPs that are part of a botnet... maybe you could post them here... not so that anyone would do anything active. Rather, we could configure our own firewalls to reject packets from that source, and then, if someone used that information unscrupulously... it's not on you.

"La shaiq' waqee mutlak bl kollin moumkin"(AC)

They are spoofing thousands

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We have just made another adjustment, please relay your experiences.

 

[turbo]

PF is very responsive right now.

 

[Evo]

I'm having no trouble right now.

 

[jtbell]

Definitely a lot better in the last few minutes. Feels like it's back to normal for me now.

 

[G01]

PF is very quick at the moment. Whatever you did, keep it up!

 

[dlgoff]

It's working very well now as opposed to about an hour ago.

 

[nismaratwork]

They are spoofing thousands

Of course they are, but in theory only one or two are needed for... um... "reasonable self defense".


Anyway, PF is now smooth as butter.

 

[Nabeshin]

Seems to be running normally for me for the first time since saturday!

 

[nismaratwork]

"Here we are again, happy as can be. All good friends in good company..."

 

[Evo]

Thank you Greg for all of your hard work!

 

[Dembadon]

Good here, so far!

 

[G01]

Thank you Greg for all of your hard work!

Yes indeed! Thanks Greg!

 

[nismaratwork]

If there's a more thankless job than spending your weekend, trapped by an idioit FedEx guy, fighting with (probably) one punk script-kiddy attacking a genuinely helpful site... I don't know what is.

Thanks Greg... have you gotten ANY sleep?

 

[Isaacsname]

DDOS on PF..? Who would do such an inane thing ?

OTOH, it's a relief to know that's what causing it, I thought it was something I said..

 

[DevilsAvocado]

Smooooth as a smoooothie! :!)

Thanks Greg!

[SIZE="1"]============================================================================================
C:\Windows\system32>tracert physicsforums.com

Tracing route to physicsforums.com [74.86.200.109]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    51 ms    47 ms    42 ms  xxxxxxxxx.tbcn.telia.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  3    30 ms    31 ms    31 ms  s-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.246.230]
  4    30 ms    30 ms    30 ms  s-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.254.110]
  5    42 ms    41 ms    42 ms  kbn-bb2-link.telia.net [213.248.65.166]
  6   126 ms   127 ms   126 ms  nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.254.91]
  7   182 ms   182 ms   190 ms  dls-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.130.67]
  8   179 ms   180 ms   181 ms  te3-3.bbr02.eq01.dal01.networklayer.com [213.248.102.174]
  9     *      178 ms   178 ms  po6.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.213]
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>time
The current time is: 16:22:45,29



============================================================================================
C:\Windows\system32>tracert physicsforums.com

Tracing route to physicsforums.com [74.86.200.109]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  xxxxxxxxx.tbcn.telia.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  3    30 ms    30 ms    31 ms  s-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.246.230]
  4    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  s-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.150]
  5    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms  kbn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.109]
  6   341 ms   176 ms   124 ms  nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.247.119]
  7   173 ms   173 ms   231 ms  dls-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.130.65]
  8   170 ms   170 ms   170 ms  te3-3.bbr02.eq01.dal01.networklayer.com [213.248.102.174]
  9   172 ms   172 ms   172 ms  po6.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.213]
 10   376 ms   200 ms   180 ms  po2.fcr03.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com [66.228.118.190]
 11   172 ms   179 ms   171 ms  physicsforums.com [74.86.200.109]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>time
The current time is: 17:38:59,54



============================================================================================
C:\Windows\system32>tracert physicsforums.com

Tracing route to physicsforums.com [74.86.200.109]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  xxxxxxxxx.tbcn.telia.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  3    31 ms    31 ms    40 ms  s-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.246.230]
  4    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  s-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.150]
  5    46 ms    39 ms    39 ms  kbn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.109]
  6   124 ms   123 ms   123 ms  nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.247.119]
  7   168 ms   168 ms   168 ms  dls-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.130.67]
  8   164 ms   164 ms   164 ms  te3-3.bbr02.eq01.dal01.networklayer.com [213.248.102.174]
  9   166 ms   166 ms   166 ms  po6.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.213]
 10   171 ms   172 ms   171 ms  po2.fcr03.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com [66.228.118.190]
 11   178 ms   171 ms   172 ms  physicsforums.com [74.86.200.109]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>time
The current time is: 17:57:13,80


============================================================================================

It was tight at SoftLayer Technologies 66.228.118.190, right...?

 

[ladykrimson]

I am having no problems posting or accessing the boards.

Thank you for all of your hard work! I think I can safely speak for everyone when I say, "We appreciate it tremendously!"

 

[DevilsAvocado]

I think I can safely speak for everyone when I say, "We appreciate it tremendously!"

Yup, count me in!

... I’ve never been suicidal before ... but this was close ... PHEW! ()

 

[Lancelot59]

It's working now!

Who would want to DDOS us? We're so nice!

 

[Q_Goest]

Looks good right now. Thanks Greg!

 

[lisab]

Group hug on Greg!