Connection issues today

[jonastio]

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]

I've been connecting from my phone the last few days it seems fine

[polebarn]

Just came up for me;was out all morning. Damn Russians.

[e.money83]

Same here. Out since last night. Just got back literally right now.

[notcreative]

"DDOS'ed"?

Please enlighten me. Thanks.

[jonastio]

Someone was demanding ransom from HostUS, holding it hostage with the DDOS starting last night.

[jonastio]

"DDOS'ed"?

Please enlighten me. Thanks.[/COLOR]

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

[Countryboy27012]

I still can not access from pc... only from my phone????

[substratum]

It's moving at lightening speed, now.

[Johnny]

Could not access all day.Thanks Slack Ass.

[polebarn]

Who is our hosting provider now?

[wheelman]

I agree with Johnny.��

[0utlaw]

Who is our hosting provider now?
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/graphics/dhs-seal-250.jpg

[notcreative]

Thanks for the enlightenment - I guess I really do need to get out more!

[jonastio]

Who is our hosting provider now?

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

[polebarn]

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

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

[jonastio]

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]

Damn Canadians!

[Cattle/Horses]

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]

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

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

[Cattle/Horses]

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]

: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]

Tack has started a new job.Back off for a while

[jonastio]

HostUS was being attacked again.

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

[0utlaw]

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]

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]

Outlaw,you Tack is our resident PYGMY.

[polebarn]

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]

What are you even talking about? They're based out of Delaware.

[jonastio]

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]

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]

Besides trying to be an ass, what's your point?

[e.money83]

Where the person who owns something lives and where the thing is actually based are two completely different things...

[polebarn]

Besides trying to be an ass, what's your point? A little touchy there aren't you?

[HarleyBrent]

:popcorn:

[polebarn]

:popcorn: No need.Just fascinated by how the internet works(or doesn't). Not meant personally.

[jonastio]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I'm rained out and bored, so... ya'll just continue Good day to drink?

[Greg Kulbick]

You can't be drunk all weekend if you don't start on Friday.

[jonastio]

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]

So you're saying that ISIS kidnapped all our jigalobytes, got it.

[jonastio]

It IS some terroristic bullshit.

[Dale Gribble]

Usually DDOS are targeting something, what was the target, any idea?

[jonastio]

Someone was demanding ransom from HostUS, holding it hostage with the DDOS starting last night.

Mentioned it earlier.

[mattb]

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]

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]

I feel for the businesses,many of them small,that can be severely harmed by these criminals.