justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY
Host:
IPv6
Business Connectiv..
Home/Office setup ..
Console/Handheld g..
Console Tech
|  Todays DDOS (site down)
Hey, glad to see you got here, by hook or by crook.
So we have a pesky DDOS and it is still on the curve upwards, over 1000 IPs so far and any which of them will attempt to hammer or occupy request slots.
Sad and annoying but thems the breaks on the internetz
It started at 4am eastern and got worse as time wore on.
I've mitigated it enough to serve pages (the site-is-down message) but the front-end is currently too slow dealing with the dregs to handle real pages.. hence the need to bring up the site on another IP address if only for members. |
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LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
VIP
join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI | Keep up the hard work  |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY
Host:
IPv6
Business Connectiv..
Home/Office setup ..
Console/Handheld g..
Console Tech
| The traffic is small in size, but is entirely composed of tiny open-connection requests from an ever growing list of IPs. I'm black holing about 5 new ones a minute and we're over 1100 now.
»i.dslr.net/stats/eth0-day.gif
Now I'll have time to try a different front-end server that may be more resistant to the type of open connection request this botnet is employing. |
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izy
Premium,MVM
join:2000-09-21
Naples, FL
| reply to justin
And why on earth would someone feel the need to do this I will never figure it out... 
Fame? nope... Fortune? nope... Taking it in the rear after you drop the soap? Ding ding ding!!!
Thanks for all the effort Justin. I was heartbroken when i sat down with my cup of coffee this morning to read the front page only to find the site down message.  |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | We are back @ www.dslreports.com , I've managed to mitigate it better this time, although the flood continues. |
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Davebo_
join:2002-11-19
Canada | reply to justin
It's nice and peppy for me, currently.
Glad you're back - my morning surf was thrown right off (but only for a couple of hours)  |
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jabarnut
Light Years Away
Premium,MVM
join:2005-01-22
Galaxy M31
| reply to justin
Thanks justin.
What a PITA huh?
I never realize how much I miss this place until I go to log in and it ain't here. 
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I had a life once.....now I have a Computer and a Modem. |
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LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
VIP
join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI
| reply to justin
said by justin  :We are back @ www.dslreports.com , I've managed to mitigate it better this time, although the flood continues. I get timeouts using dslreport.com, the IP given earlier still works fine.
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Lightning Bolt Technologies |
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Jeffrey
Bye George, 1937-2008
Premium
join:2002-12-24
Long Island
clubs:
 ·magicjack.com
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Vonage
| reply to justin
Site is responding pretty well for me here. Like someone else said, I load up CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and BBR in no particular order every AM when I get to work for 5-10 mins just to check the headlines. Bummed when I saw the message here.
Went on to read about some 21 year old woman suing AA for an issue on her plane...
Glad the site is back!
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And so castles made of sand, slip into the sea, eventually.
I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. |
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CalamityJane
Premium,VIP,MVM
join:2002-08-27
Eustis, FL | reply to justin
Glad we are back!
And blogged here FYI:
»www.lavasoft.com/company/blog/?p=360 |
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plk
bo may sleep in loft
Premium
join:2002-04-20
Ogden, IA | reply to justin
Keep up the fine work. I call this place home. |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·AT&T Yahoo
edit:
March 19th, @11:17AM
| reply to justin
Who would have the motivation (and the means, apparently)
to DDoS BBR?
Adware purveyors, VXers, criminal scam gangs, the RBN
(Russian Business Network)?
Any and perhaps even all of the above.
As has happened in the past with security & anti-spam/scam
sites, BBR may have been targeted by one of these groups
of criminals who don't like their operations being outed.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
Premium
join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
clubs: | reply to justin
Well, I missed the, errr, "excitement", but things seem good now.
Glad to see somone apparently has nothing better to do with their life than mess with DSLR. |
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kkb
An individual right
join:2000-06-11
Montrose, CO | reply to justin
Welcome back Justin! Thank you for your effort and the great site. |
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Bubba1
Less is More
Premium
join:2006-09-21
| reply to justin
said by justin :We are back @ www.dslreports.com , I've managed to mitigate it better this time, although the flood continues. Great work, justin.
From here, you're riding extra tall in the saddle.
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"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything" --Wyatt Earp |
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
Premium
join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
clubs: | reply to justin
I wonder if this had anything to do with it?
»site being DDOS?? |
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koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| reply to justin
Grah, that really sucks guys. :-(
As a fellow SA, my UNIX flag is at half-mast for you. (Good lord that sounds phallic...) Don't let this crap get your spirits down.
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Making life hard for others since 1977.
I speak for myself and not my employer/affiliates of my employer. |
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dliw
Running Dog
Premium
join:2003-03-09
Dog Pound
clubs:
·Atlantic Broadband
|  reply to kkb
said by kkb :Welcome back Justin! Thank you for your effort and the great site. Hear~Hear! |
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chaud
Serious Business
join:2004-07-09
Anderson, SC | reply to justin
Glad to see it functioning again. |
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pokesph
It Is Almost Fast
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to justin
hey it's just good training..
we've all had to deal with these stupid script-kiddies / botnets, but hey look at from the positive side, you get to train on your defenses, gain anice list of compromised IPs and so on.
Good job so far too.. only saw an error page a few times since I've woken up (6 am PDT) here |
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