Slow Forums: PF Under DDOS Attack

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  • #91


Is PF fixed?

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT
 
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  • #92


we keep tweaking the firewall. keep giving me updates on site performance
 
  • #93


Greg Bernhardt said:
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.
 
  • #94


Greg Bernhardt said:
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.
 
  • #95


lisab said:
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. :wink:
 
  • #96


turbo-1 said:
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.
 
  • #97


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

:smile:

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.
 
  • #98


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

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!
 
  • #99


Isn't there a law against this...
 
  • #100


Where's Char...

He'd kick some Ninja butt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KVf49FkqHo
 
  • #101


lisab said:
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! :cool:
 
  • #102


the my pf and get posts query is still excruciatingly slow for me.
 
  • #104


Greg Bernhardt said:
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).
 
  • #105


Edit: Weird double post... 0_o

And Greg, the forums are working ok now, definitely a lot slower than normal, but better than before.
 
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  • #106


still terrible.
 
  • #107


Greg Bernhardt said:
How are things now?

better.

What did you do?

Call Obama?
 
  • #108


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?
 
  • #109


Dickfore said:
still terrible.

Ditto.
 
  • #110


working perfectly for me atm.
 
  • #111


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.
 
  • #112


things have gone from completely useless, to barely useful.

very slow but kind of working.
 
  • #113


Nope, still happening, just maybe about half the time. I still get timeouts.
 
  • #114


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...
 
  • #115


Seems to be back up to speed now. Sorta.
 
  • #116


Delays for me couple of seconds or better.

Edit: Currently normal speeds appears to be back. (8:09 UTC)
 
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  • #117


Seems better now. Still acts funky on occasion.

EDIT: damn. looks like I broke the forums by saying that... :frown:
 
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  • #118


Meanwhile it looks from here that all is normal. Maybe the attackers are asleep?
 
  • #119


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.
 
  • #120


OmCheeto said:
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.
 

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