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jonastio
August 3rd, 2016, 10:01 AM
Looks like our hosting provider is being DDOS'ed. Might take a day for them to recover. Access to the forum will likely be spotty.

And we've not been in Canada for a bit now.

0utlaw
August 3rd, 2016, 10:50 AM
I've been connecting from my phone the last few days it seems fine

polebarn
August 3rd, 2016, 01:30 PM
Just came up for me;was out all morning. Damn Russians.

e.money83
August 3rd, 2016, 01:37 PM
Same here. Out since last night. Just got back literally right now.

notcreative
August 3rd, 2016, 01:40 PM
"DDOS'ed"?

Please enlighten me. Thanks.

jonastio
August 3rd, 2016, 01:41 PM
Someone was demanding ransom from HostUS, holding it hostage with the DDOS starting last night.

jonastio
August 3rd, 2016, 01:41 PM
"DDOS'ed"?

Please enlighten me. Thanks.[/COLOR]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Countryboy27012
August 3rd, 2016, 03:31 PM
I still can not access from pc... only from my phone????

substratum
August 3rd, 2016, 06:33 PM
It's moving at lightening speed, now.

Johnny
August 3rd, 2016, 06:35 PM
Could not access all day.Thanks Slack Ass.

polebarn
August 3rd, 2016, 07:05 PM
Who is our hosting provider now?

wheelman
August 3rd, 2016, 08:19 PM
I agree with Johnny.��

0utlaw
August 3rd, 2016, 08:25 PM
Who is our hosting provider now?
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/graphics/dhs-seal-250.jpg

notcreative
August 3rd, 2016, 08:59 PM
Thanks for the enlightenment - I guess I really do need to get out more!

jonastio
August 3rd, 2016, 09:54 PM
Who is our hosting provider now?

HostUs, mentioned in post #6. We are hosted out of Atlanta.

polebarn
August 4th, 2016, 08:29 AM
HostUs, mentioned in post #6. We are hosted out of Atlanta. These folks?

https://hostus.us/ddos-protection.html

jonastio
August 4th, 2016, 09:30 AM
I know this is just a poor attempt at being cute, but when you get a DDOS of 300gbps that takes down a tier 1 POP provider there ain't shit you can do about it except ride it out.

HarleyBrent
August 4th, 2016, 09:31 AM
Damn Canadians!

Cattle/Horses
August 4th, 2016, 09:39 AM
I know this is just a poor attempt at being cute, but when you get a DDOS of 300gbps that takes down a tier 1 POP provider there ain't shit you can do about it except ride it out.

So it's like a case of the claps? In layman's terms.

12bhunting
August 4th, 2016, 09:45 AM
So it's like a case of the claps? In layman's terms.

See I told you, you wasn't banned.....

Cattle/Horses
August 4th, 2016, 09:49 AM
See I told you, you wasn't banned.....
Yeah, 6 hours after you convinced me Tack was pissed about his business cards being handed out and he had banned me.

0utlaw
August 4th, 2016, 12:02 PM
:boggled:
I know this is just a poor attempt at being cute, but when you get a DDOS of 300gbps that takes down a tier 1 POP provider there ain't shit you can do about it except ride it out.

Yeah,I hate it when that happens

Johnny
August 4th, 2016, 03:23 PM
Tack has started a new job.Back off for a while

jonastio
August 4th, 2016, 03:26 PM
HostUS was being attacked again.

That just means y'all can do some work during the day for once.

0utlaw
August 4th, 2016, 03:30 PM
Not me I'm so short I have to reach up to lace my boots, Jody better un ass the AO cause daddy's coming home

0utlaw
August 4th, 2016, 03:35 PM
Yeah, 6 hours after you convinced me Tack was pissed about his business cards being handed out and he had banned me.
Who is this Tack you speak of?

Johnny
August 4th, 2016, 04:06 PM
Outlaw,you Tack is our resident PYGMY.

polebarn
August 4th, 2016, 04:31 PM
I know this is just a poor attempt at being cute, but when you get a DDOS of 300gbps that takes down a tier 1 POP provider there ain't shit you can do about it except ride it out. Pic of HostUS world headquarters in Scotland:

https://geo0.ggpht.com/cbk?panoid=KAF726NHSddU_P8VJHdL7Q&output=thumbnail&cb_client=search.TACTILE.gps&thumb=2&w=250&h=114&yaw=94.849655&pitch=0&w=250&h=114

jonastio
August 4th, 2016, 05:23 PM
What are you even talking about? They're based out of Delaware.

jonastio
August 4th, 2016, 05:27 PM
So it's like a case of the claps? In layman's terms.


It's more like nobody being able to get into your business because there's a flood of 10,000 people trying to get in and out of your building.

Also: It's like trying to bang Dale's momma but there's 10,000 dicks in the way.

polebarn
August 5th, 2016, 06:44 AM
What are you even talking about? They're based out of Delaware. Everything I've seen indicates a private owner out of Motherwell,UK (Scotland).

jonastio
August 5th, 2016, 09:49 AM
Besides trying to be an ass, what's your point?

e.money83
August 5th, 2016, 09:56 AM
Where the person who owns something lives and where the thing is actually based are two completely different things...

polebarn
August 5th, 2016, 10:10 AM
Besides trying to be an ass, what's your point? A little touchy there aren't you?

HarleyBrent
August 5th, 2016, 10:12 AM
:popcorn:

polebarn
August 5th, 2016, 10:16 AM
:popcorn: No need.Just fascinated by how the internet works(or doesn't). Not meant personally.

jonastio
August 5th, 2016, 10:26 AM
A little touchy there aren't you?

So you get caught out trying to make passive aggressive comments and you try to turn it around by saying I'm being touchy? That's not even intelligently dishonest.

Dale Gribble
August 5th, 2016, 10:28 AM
Also: It's like trying to bang Dale's momma but there's 10,000 dicks in the way.

Its not a problem for you however, Jonas likes the dick..

polebarn
August 5th, 2016, 10:31 AM
So you get caught out trying to make passive aggressive comments and you try to turn it around by saying I'm being touchy? That's not even intelligently dishonest. Rationalize things any way you want.Nothing aimed at you.

HarleyBrent
August 5th, 2016, 10:36 AM
No need.Just fascinated by how the internet works(or doesn't). Not meant personally.
I'm rained out and bored, so... ya'll just continue

polebarn
August 5th, 2016, 10:39 AM
I'm rained out and bored, so... ya'll just continue Good day to drink?

Greg Kulbick
August 5th, 2016, 10:42 AM
You can't be drunk all weekend if you don't start on Friday.

jonastio
August 5th, 2016, 10:42 AM
I any case, for the folks that are actually interested:

HostUS came under sustained attack across all owned IP's in a couple of their US data centers. While they do have DDOS mitigation in place, it's the kind of protection that only works when it's just one or a small subset of systems that are attacked.

To understand the scope of the attack, most home internet services rate between 10mbps and 20mbps (that's megabits per second, or some factor of 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 bytes per second). Whatever businesses y'all have internet at, it likely doesn't go beyond 1gbps (gigabits per second), and that isn't really commonplace unless you have a publicly accessible data center at your office. That should help you understand the scale when I say that their 300gpbs internet connection was saturated with traffic. When I stated earlier that it took down a tier 1 pop provider, what that meant was that it brought down a major east coast connection between two networks that make up part of the backbone of the internet we enjoy here in the states.

Jafar
August 5th, 2016, 10:44 AM
So you're saying that ISIS kidnapped all our jigalobytes, got it.

jonastio
August 5th, 2016, 10:55 AM
It IS some terroristic bullshit.

Dale Gribble
August 5th, 2016, 11:13 AM
Usually DDOS are targeting something, what was the target, any idea?

jonastio
August 5th, 2016, 11:37 AM
Someone was demanding ransom from HostUS, holding it hostage with the DDOS starting last night.

Mentioned it earlier.

mattb
August 6th, 2016, 12:17 AM
Maybe ask if they are turning off the ports these fucks are using for access? Or maybe they should spend money on a quality firewall.

jonastio
August 6th, 2016, 01:36 AM
If it were just that simple. A DDOS of this magnitude usually involves a botnet of several hundred to a couple thousand infected residential and business computers, sometimes within a country, sometimes internationally. Depends on the botnet.

Stuff like this has no simple answer. Even a firewall doesn't help. Your outbound traffic might be damn near zero but if your incoming traffic is flooded, the legitimate traffic comes in at less than a trickle.

polebarn
August 6th, 2016, 08:40 AM
I feel for the businesses,many of them small,that can be severely harmed by these criminals.