| Annoucements / Forum News DOS attack today; Debatepolitics.com suffered a significant Denial of Service attack today. Basically that is where someone has a block of computers ... |
01-23-08, 09:06 PM
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Debatepolitics.com suffered a significant Denial of Service attack today. Basically that is where someone has a block of computers and point them all to us at the same time. ~10000 connections.
We are still working on a faster means of dealing with these [insert fav curse name here]. However, our server sustained no apparent dmg nor did the database.
Thank you for being patient with us. | 
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01-23-08, 11:21 PM
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hmmm.
TOT?
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01-24-08, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by niftydrifty  hmmm.
TOT? | LOL! I wondered the exact same thing! TOT is not the only begrudged former poster, though. | |
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01-24-08, 08:31 AM
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Thanks for the explanation, Vauge I couldn't get on for several hours yesterday when I was home alone. It was horrible  | |
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01-24-08, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by niftydrifty hmmm.
TOT? | There is an easy way to find out. Look for boogers in the server. 
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01-24-08, 04:21 PM
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Did anybody check out the dp news bot? Prehaps this was a retaliation by the bot for being switched from digg.com.....
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01-24-08, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by WI Crippler Did anybody check out the dp news bot? Prehaps this was a retaliation by the bot for being switched from digg.com..... | ROFL!!!  | |
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01-24-08, 06:50 PM
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TOT isn't tech savvy enough to pull this off.
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01-25-08, 01:28 AM
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Originally Posted by WI Crippler Did anybody check out the dp news bot? Prehaps this was a retaliation by the bot for being switched from digg.com..... | I think it was the news_bot, too, but I think it was a retaliation for danarhea replacing it's oil with peanut butter. Jealously can cause us to do terrible things.
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*wishes sub-prime bankruptcy on whoever it is that did this*
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