Slow Forums: PF Under DDOS Attack

[Pengwuino]

Is PF fixed?

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

we keep tweaking the firewall. keep giving me updates on site performance

 

[lisab]

we keep tweaking the firewall. keep giving me updates on site performance

Still slow loading pages. I get that "Oops, Chrome can't load the page" error about 10% of the time.

It seemed nearly normal about an hour ago, though.

 

[lisab]

we keep tweaking the firewall. keep giving me updates on site performance

Still slow loading pages. I get that "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.physicsforums.com" error about 10% of the time.

It seemed nearly normal about an hour ago, though.

 

[Grep]

Still slow loading pages. I get that "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.physicsforums.com" error about 10% of the time.

It seemed nearly normal about an hour ago, though.

Your double post says more about site performance than the contents of your post ever could.

 

[KrisOhn]

My new neighbor is a networking geek with his own company. Maybe if some of us knew more about the DoS, we could help resolve it.

A denial of service attack is a pretty low tier attack. It could by run by anyone, with a small amount of knowledge, and more easily run by a script kiddie (someone who runs scripts to hack). There are much more devastating hacks that can be done using subtler methods, but with that comes a large increase in the knowledge needed.

I think the best thing that we could probably do for now is honestly stay away from the forums for a bit, let them sort it out on their own without nonthreatening IP's requesting service also. (heh, this just happens to be the exact thing I'm not doing)

And Greg, just a couple minutes ago, when I came to this thread, the forums were working relatively smoothly, but now, they are back to loading slowly.

 

[nismaratwork]

Your double post says more about site performance than the contents of your post ever could.

This is true. It's slow, but you can tell this is not exactly a masterpiece DOS... I hate halfwits and hacks, but I'm glad in this case.

 

[lisab]

Your double post says more about site performance than the contents of your post ever could.

Yeah...sigh. Right after I posted...those...it got really bad, I had to bail out.

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

 

[OmCheeto]

Isn't there a law against this...

 

[OmCheeto]

Where's Char...

He'd kick some Ninja butt...

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

 

[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.