Sorry about that downtime

[Sean K]

It's worth reporting I reckon, and I think you know who it was.

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[qldfrog]

As I remember using Covid in a post yesterday and giving numbers of death. vaccs, etc..I thought I had been cut ;-)
Good luck in your fight @Joe Blow, we are with you

 

[Joules MM1]

Please keep posting and participating. The only way to beat the kind of scumbags who do this is to carry on with business as usual and keep the community active.

what a lot of people are getting, 10 mins of this

 

[Joules MM1]

that reminds me, time for another donation

take that fekkers !!

 

[Joe Blow]

that reminds me, time for another donation

take that fekkers !!

Thanks! It is sincerely appreciated. Yes, unfortunately this all costs money and time but either you fight or you bow down and surrender to these cretins. I prefer to fight.

 

[Joe Blow]

They got the better of us for a couple of hours, but we should be back now. Let me know if you are experiencing any issues moving forward.

 

[SirRumpole]

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[Joe Blow]

Sorry folks, that was me this time. Apologies.

 

[tech/a]

Keep getting a redirection notice then 15 second pause where it opens or fails 50/50 bet!

 

[Joe Blow]

Keep getting a redirection notice then 15 second pause where it opens or fails 50/50 bet!

Sorry about that, but unfortunately we're still in attack mode. The server has been hit by almost 100 million separate attacks today. I have been working with the host most of the day to mitigate these attacks, and we're slowly getting on top of it.

Until we're out of attack mode you will get the redirection notice about once every half an hour.

 

[qldfrog]

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sure it is not I like curry?

 

[Craton]

Thanks for the updates and your efforts Joe.

Yeah, bloody doggy DDOS a$re hats sure haven't got a life huh?

 

[sptrawler]

Thanks for the updates and your efforts Joe.

Yeah, bloody doggy DDOS a$re hats sure haven't got a life huh?

Big sigh of relief from me, I thought my computer had $hat itself.?

 

[againsthegrain]

They must of read the china thread and decided to censor it

 

[SirRumpole]

Poor Joe.

It must be hell trying to deal with this sort of thing.

 

[Joe Blow]

Good morning everyone. The server went down again around 6am, but it's up again now. I'm still waiting on the host to provide an explanation as to what happened.

Let's see how we go today.

 

[qldfrog]

@Joe Blow , just throwing 2 ideas, you may already be on it,
1 ASF is hugely accessed legitimately from oz, so you could filter out non Australian requests from ip.i somewhat suspect that the machines "enslaved" for the dos attack will be non oz in majority (Basic stats)
2 based on this location idea, maybe check the speed of reply in the request...
If OS, will be slower..obviously then bad luck for legit ASF users on dialup

Just 2 ideas if it helps, none will be perfect answer even if they work
Hold strong

 

[againsthegrain]

@Joe Blow , just throwing 2 ideas, you may already be on it,
1 ASF is hugely accessed legitimately from oz, so you could filter out non Australian requests from ip.i somewhat suspect that the machines "enslaved" for the dos attack will be non oz in majority (Basic stats)
2 based on this location idea, maybe check the speed of reply in the request...
If OS, will be slower..obviously then bad luck for legit ASF users on dialup

Just 2 ideas if it helps, none will be perfect answer even if they work
Hold strong

Another idea is to blacklist whole suspect subnets/isps where the attacks mostly originate or even countries. I have seen this technique used in the past and few times been caught out too being on a suspected subnet through not fault or my own. But as frog says if its 1% that might possibly lose access from non au locations it is probably worth it, temporarily. Good of the many outweight...

 

[qldfrog]

Another idea is to blacklist whole suspect subnets/isps where the attacks mostly originate or even countries. I have seen this technique used in the past and few times been caught out too being on a suspected subnet through not fault or my own. But as frog says if its 1% that might possibly lose access from non au locations it is probably worth it, temporarily. Good of the many outweight...

Yes, we all agree not perfect or foolproof.
I like(d) reading ASF from Asia, and some dos will originate from oz but lesser evil..

 

[Joe Blow]

Some of you may have received an "Origin Error" when trying to access ASF this morning. The host has told me that this was due to a routing error in the data centre where ASF is hosted.

It is being dealt with by the host and should now hopefully be resolved.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.