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Is PF fixed?

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT
 
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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.
 


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.
 


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:
 


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.
 


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.
 


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!
 


Isn't there a law against this...
 


Where's Char...

He'd kick some Ninja butt...

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


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:
 


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


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).
 


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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Greg Bernhardt said:
How are things now?

better.

What did you do?

Call Obama?
 


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?
 


Dickfore said:
still terrible.

Ditto.
 


working perfectly for me atm.
 


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.
 


things have gone from completely useless, to barely useful.

very slow but kind of working.
 


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


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...
 


Seems to be back up to speed now. Sorta.
 


Delays for me couple of seconds or better.

Edit: Currently normal speeds appears to be back. (8:09 UTC)
 
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Seems better now. Still acts funky on occasion.

EDIT: damn. looks like I broke the forums by saying that... :frown:
 
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Meanwhile it looks from here that all is normal. Maybe the attackers are asleep?
 


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.
 


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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