What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

The_Conductor

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Is it just me or is anyone getting the same issue as me on this thread.

I try to go to page 190 but it keeps going to the first page.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057481488&page=191

Its going to page 178 for me- and then I can flick on to page 190........ (its not pulling up page 191- its instead presenting 178- not the first page).

Bit strange- but not a major issue.

Slideways

Well are the powers that be monitoring this or just ignoring it hoping we'll go away?

Bummer1234

The_Conductor wrote: »

Its going to page 178 for me- and then I can flick on to page 190........ (its not pulling up page 191- its instead presenting 178- not the first page).

Bit strange- but not a major issue.

I can't get onto page 190 at all even going through the pages one by one...

Michael D Not Higgins

Works for me...

Vicxas

Sorry if this has been brought up already, but i got a few emails from other fora that are using vbulletin saying that there was an exploit of VB back in January, ill give you the gist of the email I got:

As I am sure you are all aware, we run vBulletin, an off-the-shelf forum package, which we get notified on when to update.

We have just been made aware of a security leak that occurred in January this year due to a series of vulnerabilities in vB, some of which have been of a high severity over the past few months. We have been patching these, but as a high-traffic site there’s always an increased risk, and we want to protect all users and admins the best we can.

We want to be transparent with you - the only information which we believe the attack could have taken is email, username, IP, and salted/hashed password. However, whilst the vB passwords are salted and hashed, and are safely stored, they can, if gathered, be broken to reveal the password in plaintext. This is all the more likely when you are using common, short or simple passwords, so we highly recommend users choose strong passwords.

As such, we are urging all users to immediately change their bit-tech forum password. We will not be forcing you to do this, as it causes all sorts of headaches with users who no longer have access to the email address they signed up with, but if you do not change your password you are putting your account at risk.

Please be vigilant against fake/phishing emails going forwards; we rarely email people on the forums and we would never ask for your username or password. If you are not sure if the email is genuine, please, of course, double check.

We want to apologise for any inconvenience caused, but we wanted to notify you as soon as information has come to light in order to protect you.

The forums are fully patched and secure per vBulletin’s guidelines, and all admins and moderators have been forced to change their passwords too. We are keeping an eye on things as well.

Is the legacy site affected by this, should we consider changing our passwords?

Boards.ie: Niamh

Slideways wrote: »

Well are the powers that be monitoring this or just ignoring it hoping we'll go away?

I don't know about "powers that be" but the team are monitoring the thread and looking into issues reported, yes.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Vicxas wrote: »

Sorry if this has been brought up already, but i got a few emails from other fora that are using vbulletin saying that there was an exploit of VB back in January, ill give you the gist of the email I got:



Is the legacy site affected by this, should we consider changing our passwords?

I'm not aware of it having affected us in any way but let me check with the team to be sure. Thanks.

The Hill Billy

Just now on desktop site...

Error 521 Ray ID: 2deb18ebc5740a90 • 2016-09-07 15:12:10 UTC

Web server is down

(m.boards is OK)

Alun

Getting loads of Cloudflare 502 errors again just now.

Boards.ie: Andres

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

Vicxas wrote: »

Sorry if this has been brought up already, but i got a few emails from other fora that are using vbulletin saying that there was an exploit of VB back in January, ill give you the gist of the email I got:



Is the legacy site affected by this, should we consider changing our passwords?

I'm not aware of it having affected us in any way but let me check with the team to be sure. Thanks.

Hi Vicxas, thanks for the heads up.

We are using a customised (and very old) version of vBulletin 3.8.7 and they are on version 5.2 at the moment so it is difficult to tell whether we are affected or not.
There is a list of known vBulletin vulnerabilities here https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-8142/Vbulletin.html.

The one from June seems to be the most like the mail description as it allows SQL Injection, and seems to be related to this vBulletin announcement: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-announcements/vbulletin-announcements_aa/4345175-security-update-for-vbulletin-4.

All in all, this only affects vBulletin 4 prior to 4.2.2 so it seems unlikely that we were affected.
However, is there any chance you could confirm that the security issue you got by email matches the one described above so that we can be completely sure?
Thanks

flyingsnail

Getting 502 errors

Error 502 Ray ID: 2deb3f523b02297b • 2016-09-07 15:38:24 UTC

Overheal

Just lost a long post to that verify-your-not-a-robot page. then it went to a blank page. Kinda ticked off

Lumi

Getting multiple 'Error 521 Ray ID: 2decf6b9cba72963 • 2016-09-07 20:38:20 UTC
Web server is down' when trying to post tonight - 3 while trying to post this!

Cookie_Monster

Error 520 Ray ID: 2decf712e31a19aa • 2016-09-07 20:38:39 UTC

few of these this morning...

also what are people talking about page 190, it only goes up to 170 currently for me...

The whole thing is getting pretty tedious at this stage, what exactly is going on to cause this, no other website I use has ever had such long running issues that boards has had in the last 6 months+

Just had a few, here's one I caught!

Error 521 Ray ID: 2decf9edfe8d2987 • 2016-09-07 20:40:41 UTC

EDIT: for what it's worth this coincided with a period of absolutely appalling internet service to other sites as well as rather silly response times from 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=663 ttl=57 time=819 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=664 ttl=57 time=1805 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=666 ttl=57 time=228 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=667 ttl=57 time=994 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=668 ttl=57 time=1648 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=670 ttl=57 time=1441 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=672 ttl=57 time=318 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=673 ttl=57 time=3355 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=677 ttl=57 time=534 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=678 ttl=57 time=1145 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=681 ttl=57 time=1616 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=683 ttl=57 time=962 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=684 ttl=57 time=2650 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=687 ttl=57 time=1408 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=693 ttl=57 time=39474 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=733 ttl=57 time=1317 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=735 ttl=57 time=7287 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=736 ttl=57 time=64589 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=742 ttl=57 time=70382 ms

Lumi

Error 520 Ray ID: 2ded0225362c2963 • 2016-09-07 20:46:08 UTC
Web server is returning an unknown error

Another variant ...

Stheno

Also getting the errors posted above.

KERSPLAT!

Error 520 Ray ID: 2ded261f1e8a298d • 2016-09-07 21:10:43 UTC

New Home

Error 520 here too, about a minute ago.

JCX BXC

Site was down for over 60 seconds for me there.

_Tombstone_

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Error 520 Ray ID: 2decf712e31a19aa • 2016-09-07 20:38:39 UTC

few of these this morning...

also what are people talking about page 190, it only goes up to 170 currently for me...

The whole thing is getting pretty tedious at this stage, what exactly is going on to cause this, no other website I use has ever had such long running issues that boards has had in the last 6 months+

You've probably set your posts per page higher.

Boards.ie: Ronan

Hi,

Firstly apologies for the problems you've been experiencing of late - we implemented some pretty major changes to our hardware setup last week and following that a few unforeseen issues have arisen. The intermittent 500 errors that some of you were reporting it seems was down to one of our boxes not handing the request queue properly, so we've taken some steps to alleviate that. If you do receive any more unexpected 500 errors, please do post here and let us know as there may be some further fettling required.

Ronan

seagull

Just got blocked for the last couple of minutes with 500 errors.

padd b1975

Page 2 of After Hours has been refusing to load for me.
It's just refreshing page 1 when I click.

Any simple fixes I can try?

Darkglasses

padd b1975 wrote: »

Page 2 of After Hours has been refusing to load for me.
It's just refreshing page 1 when I click.

Any simple fixes I can try?

Works fine for me on Chrome

padd b1975

Darkglasses wrote: »

Works fine for me on Chrome

On chrome here too.

Maybe a general clean-up on my end might help.

padd b1975

padd b1975 wrote: »

Page 2 of After Hours has been refusing to load for me.
It's just refreshing page 1 when I click.

Any simple fixes I can try?

It seems to have sorted itself out.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Site's finally back after about 30/45 mins of DNS errors

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Error 502 Ray ID: 2e1a54d7716e298d • 2016-09-13 08:46:54 UTC

Bad gateway

The_Conductor

Error 521 Ray ID: 2e1a52f1b1bc2975 • 2016-09-13 08:45:37 UTC
Web server is down

(this is on desktop- mobile seems to be online (but ping rates are really really poor)