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    #842
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,594 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Ruu wrote: »
    We'll be telling our grandchildren of this day. Never forget 1/17-1/20. :p
    Not a patch on 1/21/2010 (and maybe some of those grandchildren have something to be thankful for about that date) ......


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    #843
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,884 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Beasty wrote: »
    Not a patch on 1/21/2010 (and maybe some of those grandchildren have something to be thankful for about that date) ......
    What happened on that date?


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    #844
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,861 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Thargor wrote: »
    What happened on that date?
    we woz hacked :eek:


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    #845
    stevek93
    Registered Users Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭stevek93


    Still can't login on the PC lads say your head are wrecked at this point.


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    #846
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,269 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Thargor wrote: »
    What happened on that date?
    Should be the time Dav decided to help the admin team by doing some routine work and by mistake ended up moving every single post and thread from the whole site into one single forum. The software was not happy with that and the whole database crashed losing all posts (thankfully they had a back up to restore from)...


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    #847
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,861 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Thargor wrote: »
    What happened on that date?
    we woz hacked :eek:


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    #848
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Trying to load a thread with new posts seems to fail each time (503). Not sure if this is a coincidence or something significant.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #849
    billymitchell
    Registered Users Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭billymitchell


    I was only saying to people yesterday how I felt sorry for the guys behind boards going through the DDOS attack,cant have been pleasant.(Especially for this length of time)
    Now that I have just finished up dealing with one in work today, I can doubly feel their pain.
    If anybody from Boards wants to contact me, I wouldnt mind discussing with them what solutions they came up with, and I am happy to share any learnings we have as well from dealing with our own DDOS attack.


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    #850
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    So obviously there are still some issues we're trying to iron out. Time-outs are frequent for us and there are issues with logging in and out. These are all being worked on as we speak and if I had a more concrete estimate for you on when they'll be back, I'd share it. We're obviously as keen to get this sorted out as anyone!


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    #851
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,117 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Site went down for several minutes there, back up now and alot faster and more responsive, I appreciate all the hard work!

    Edit: Scrap that, went down again, back and completely unusable, took 3 attempts to even post this update.


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    #852
    TheBody
    Registered Users Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭TheBody


    First time all day I've been able to get onto boards. Site is running VERY slow for me. Almost unusable.


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    #853
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Back again, for now


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    #854
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,117 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Back again, for now

    Don't speak too soon, been on and off most of the evening


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    #855
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Back again, for now

    Pretty much Boards' best selling point at this stage


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    #856
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Some of the largest websites in the world are taken down by DDoS, I'm sure boards are doing all they can to get the site up but bearing in mind it wouldn't generate a huge amount of revenue, I'm sure they are limited in what they can do at this stage.


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    #857
    cyberwolf77
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    I was having withdrawal symptoms


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    #858
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    cyberwolf77 wrote: »
    I was having withdrawal symptoms

    Likewise. On the upside my work productivity has gone through the roof.


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    #859
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,282 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    The National Lottery were hit by a DDoS today, so there seems to be a lot of it about right now.


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    #860
    cyberwolf77
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    Loughc wrote: »
    Likewise. On the upside my work productivity has gone through the roof.

    Thankfully I slept most of today


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    #861
    Treepole
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭Treepole


    Zaph wrote: »
    The National Lottery were hit by a DDoS today, so there seems to be a lot of it about right now.

    DDoS is a handy excuse for a lot of sites when they experience technical problems. The Lotto jackpot was very high tonight and their site just probably couldn't handle the traffic. They have been plagued with technical difficulties since they were taken over.

    Actually.....


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    #862
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,974 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    I guess there's no need for spoiler tags in the Making A Murderer threads anymore. We all had a chance to watch the full series over the last couple of days. I got through The Hateful Eight and Room as well.


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    #863
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,004 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Thank you Technical Staff for all your hard work. I was never on this particular section of Boards before, but I had to find out a bit more about this DDoS attack.

    I was getting kicked out with error messages from Cloudflare only a few hours ago, before I was finally able to get back to my precious Boards.
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #864
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Some of the largest websites in the world are taken down by DDoS, I'm sure boards are doing all they can to get the site up but bearing in mind it wouldn't generate a huge amount of revenue, I'm sure they are limited in what they can do at this stage.

    Your dead right Kersplat. Sony spent $170m after their ddos attack in 2013. I know boards isn't as big as them but it'll still cost a lot of money to boards in lost revenue over the last 2-3 days.

    https://blog.radware.com/security/2013/05/how-much-can-a-ddos-attack-cost-your-business/


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    #865
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Treepole wrote: »
    DDoS is a handy excuse for a lot of sites when they experience technical problems. The Lotto jackpot was very high tonight and their site just probably couldn't handle the traffic. They have been plagued with technical difficulties since they were taken over.

    Actually.....

    Yes. Lots of people using your site isn't a DDOS.


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    #866
    Dunny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Getting this from time to time.
    Error 1001 Ray ID: 2675b9b4989f2963 • 2016-01-19 21:45:13 UTC
    DNS resolution error
    What happened?

    You've requested a page on a website (www.boards.ie) that is on the CloudFlare network. CloudFlare is currently unable to resolve your requested domain (www.boards.ie). There are two potential causes of this:

    Most likely: if the owner just signed up for CloudFlare it can take a few minutes for the website's information to be distributed to our global network.
    Less likely: something is wrong with this site's configuration. Usually this happens when accounts have been signed up with a partner organization (e.g., a hosting provider) and the provider's DNS fails.


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    #867
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Can't log in on the phone on touch, full site or beta. Getting an internal server error message.


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    #868
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,601 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    thesandeman wrote: »
    I guess there's no need for spoiler tags in the Making A Murderer threads anymore. We all had a chance to watch the full series over the last couple of days. I got through The Hateful Eight and Room as well.

    Im amazed you got through room since the site went down, it took me and mum 7 years!


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    #869
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Dunny wrote: »
    Getting this from time to time.

    Had the same message when trying to access rte.ie earlier, think they are taking a hit too.


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    #870
    Duiske
    Registered Users Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    Ruu wrote: »
    We'll be telling our grandchildren of this day. Never forget 1/17-1/20. :p

    It will be awhile before I can tell my Grandson. He was born Monday night 1/18, in the midst of the Apocalddos. :D


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    #871
    d31b0y
    Registered Users Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    We got hit in work by a group called "The Armada Collective". They DDoS and then hold the company to ransom. They managed to take down nearly the entire WAN. Took two days to resolve (we didn't pay).

    More info here about them - https://www.grahamcluley.com/2015/11/armada-collective-ddos/

    Something similar happen here?


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