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#47 | |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I just hit the eat a cookie button out of curiosity.
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#48 |
Larger than life and twice as ugly.
Join Date: Apr 2004
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You'll never notice the difference.
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We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. ![]() ![]() Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
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#49 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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![]() It looked like a denial-of-service attack last night. This was 20 different IP addresses hitting every single link on the Cellar last night in various patterns. After two hours, the new cloud provider's bots noticed the spike and alerted me to it. We had these attacks before, but after the move I hadn't blocked the IP addresses that are responsible for it. You can see how, at the end, it doesn't suddenly stop - it trails off. That's me, blocking various sets of addresses until I got them all. This one three hour attack led to more bandwidth use than about 4 days of everyone just generally Cellarizing. It's not big deal because the capacity to handle it is built in. |
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#50 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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However, the good news is that the forum remained responsive, even as the system used all its resources to produce and deliver 200,000 Cellar hits over the space of two hours.
In comparison, during the 20:00 hour there were 3500 hits delivered... |
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#51 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
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So you had to go in and fix it at 11PM last night? What a pain in the ass.
Thank you. |
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#52 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
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Is there something tangible to be gained by the attackers; or, is it just for shits and grins?
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#53 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Well, "go in" means I had to stop playing Rocket League and ssh to the server and figure it out. So that was a pain in the ass, but now, I consider it professional experience. Running Cellar servers has kept me fresh in certain areas of knowledge and it's been a real benefit at my new gig.
The whole move has been like that; it forces me to stay on my toes. In fact the whole Cellar lifetime has been like that, a hobby that pays back a little. It's rare I think. Playing bass has never helped me professionally. That I know of. |
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#54 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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As for why they do it - impossible to know! The attacks started a few months ago I think. We probably have enemies. Or maybe I do. Can't tell.
It's easy enough to create code that will harass a website by merely overloading it or confusing its logging. This sort of thing happens all the time. |
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#55 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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Probably somebody I pissed off.
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#56 | |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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But honestly, I would have thought DDoS attacks were always from overseas, and were basically practice runs for their attempts to bring down really big sites for ransom. |
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#57 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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These are coming from server co-location type places in the US. But it could just as easily be
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#58 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Well, it's probably not ISIS since Anonymous declared war on them.
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#59 |
I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
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I always think this thread title is the cellar. 'could' move
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