We're drowning in lurkers

It's definitely been a while since I threw some cash out there for this site. I love this site and wouldn't want to see it go away. Where's the link?

We tried to get a link last time, but in the end could never raise enough to buy one.

I thought it said "lunkers". I was expecting a fishing report.

Former poster.. new lurker.. I don't get what the big deal is. [Coffee]

Geesh, I talk about our site a little over on MOMS DEMAND and Bloomberg and look what happens.......

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Geesh, I talk about our site a little over on MOMS DEMAND and Bloomberg and look what happens.......

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I BLAME YOU! [ROFL1]

Thanks everyone. We took down the donations page a bit back because we had what we needed at the time. The drive crashes in Feb/March and hosting fees from this year have added up a bit, so we will discuss amongst the staff opening up the donations system again for a while. Stay tuned. Thanks for the offers of help!

--J

The short downtimes are me trying to flush some of the surged connections after I add drop rules to the firewall. Getting some more attacks tonight. Not as bad as Sunday...

Might be a couple of short outages as I continue to fight this/these douche(s).

Thanks J for your work.

I have Zero skill in what it takes to deal with this garbage. Good job, J.

Keel them all. Bastages messing with our hang out.

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Need to redirect them somewhere that's interesting... If you knew who was behind it, you'd know better what would be "interesting" to them.

Newbie to the forum here..... I generally don't donate to a forum when I first register, but seeing as you all are unfortunately stuck with me for a while (I've found a nice little corner with my name on it). I would be glad to make a donation.

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Newbie to the forum here..... I generally don't donate to a forum when I first register, but seeing as you all are unfortunately stuck with me for a while (I've found a nice little corner with my name on it). I would be glad to make a donation.

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Hey, that's mah cornah, you filthy Ho... [ROFL1] Welcome to the asylum!

He was cold...

Then went to the corner because it was 90 degrees... [facepalm]

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He was cold...

Then went to the corner because it was 90 degrees... [facepalm]

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Dadum-tish... [LOL]

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Need to redirect them somewhere that's interesting... If you knew who was behind it, you'd know better what would be "interesting" to them.

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Just redirect them all to MSNBC. That'll teach 'em!


Or maybe something more useful, like the Hillsdale College free US Constitution online course (which is excellent, BTW).

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Just redirect them all to MSNBC. That'll teach 'em!


Or maybe something more useful, like the Hillsdale College free US Constitution online course (which is excellent, BTW).

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Maybe the FBI.gov site?

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Maybe the FBI.gov site?

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I like the way you think!



How about the NSA cyber threat tip line?
[Coffee]

It doesn't look like we have the "lurkers" anymore but the site is still running really slow for me the last day or 2? How is it working for everyone else?

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It doesn't look like we have the "lurkers" anymore but the site is still running really slow for me the last day or 2? How is it working for everyone else?

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Same for me. Phone or desktop.

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It doesn't look like we have the "lurkers" anymore but the site is still running really slow for me the last day or 2? How is it working for everyone else?

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slow no matter what device I'm on


Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.

Good luck dealing with it guys. I hate website support.
Does something like cloudflare, etc. work well for a forum? I know when we enabled it for a couple of our sites, we ended up with a lot less malware/attack maintenance, but they are pretty static sites.

Yup-still slow here too.

Sllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwww...

Better than the other day but still slow for me too.

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I've been fighting with this a good bit this afternoon/evening. It might continue to be a bumpy ride for a bit, until our attacker gets a tired of his hijinx.

It seems that someone has found a vulnerability in a large colocation provider. We have received several moderate level DoS attacks at various times today. Unfortunately, the provider that has been compromised has many servers, over almost a dozen locations, so it has been difficult to lock that host out of the firewall entirely in a preventative process. Like many CoLo providers, they have acquired sporadic/random class Bs and Cs from their upstream (and LARGE) ISPs as needed, that would lock out many members with a wide scale rule in the firewall.

We have been locking out individual class C subnets reactively as attacks present themselves. I am also contracting this provider with what data I have, in hopes they can assist. Unfortunately, it probably isn't servers directly administered by this provider, but those of a client that rents space from them.

Hopefully it starts performing better with the newest round of firewall drop rules.

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No clue what you just said, but boy we are glad to have you.

Still slow here or is it just me ?

Still slow...but better than a couple of days ago [Coffee]

Been a member of some boards that the only "solution" was to restrict access to registered users and block new requests until things calmed down. A really ugly, if effective method.

That's racist! You can't ban all Muslim's, I mean lurkers, until we figure this out.

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Still slow here or is it just me ?

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Yeah pages take a while to load lately. At least we are running. I get the shakes when I can't access this place every 30 minutes.

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Yeah pages take a while to load lately. At least we are running. I get the shakes when I can't access this place every 30 seconds.

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FIFY... [ROFL1]

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That's racist! You can't ban all Muslim's, I mean lurkers, until we figure this out.

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I think we should ban everyone who doesn't know how to properly use an apostrophe.
[Coffee]

Maybe lurkers in burqas?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa

Not gonna give out infrastructure details in public... but it's being worked on gents.

I have a client in the same rack that was targeted with us, and they are still suffering some symptoms too. It's difficult to troubleshoot quickly as some things are network layer, and business critical apps behind the network need careful planning for any downtime.

It might be another week or so, and hopefully not two, but possible. But I'm making moves with spare hardware and a couple new purchases to make everything more snappy, resilient against attacks, and silod to help in the future.

If you need financial help with hardware, I (and many others) are just waiting to help. Thanks again for your tireless efforts!

OH MY GOD EVERYTHING IS SO FAST NOW MY BRAIN CANNOT KEEP UP WITH MY CLICKS

Thanks for all the hard work guys! much appreciated!

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If you need financial help with hardware, I (and many others) are just waiting to help. Thanks again for your tireless efforts!

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This.