[lynchknot]

Is anyone else having trouble or is it just me again

edit - nevermind techzonez just popped back on.

[FthrJACK]

going by rev's name in Messenger TZ is being DDOS'ed. but hes away at the minute so i cant ask him about it.
Why the hell would someone attack TZ
Maybe his site is on a virtual server and its not his site being hit.. but one of the others run from the same machine.

[MSNwar]

FthrJack, how is that you can see that with messenger? Interesting subject really.

[Reverend]

MSNwar, on Dec 28 2002, 01:00 AM, said:

FthrJack, how is that you can see that with messenger? Interesting subject really.

He saw my current Messenger nickname "Reverend - f#@*% n' dos attacks"

Here's an explanation of the downtime,from my hosts;

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At 9:00am on the 27/12/2002 we experienced a massive influx of bad traffic known as a DDOS attack
This was not a small attack, it was in the region of 800mbit which not only brought down our network but also caused problems for Claranet and Telia.
Claranet use Telia for transatlantic connections and the size of the attack caused the flooding of 2 Gigabit connections, which cause failures in the Claranet network. The size of this attack is the biggest Claranet have seen.
The traffic was tracked down to compromised systems in a number of American universities and blocked, service was then restored, however due to the magnitude of this attack it did take a long time.

FJ sorry i didn't get back to you on MSN,i was busy having a 4 way conversation with some members.

[MSNwar]

Rev. Sorry to hear that. Hope it all gets sorted out in your best interest.

This is all a bit over my head really. Am I to understand that your host was flooded with a gigantic series of DDOS attacks in such magnitude that it was like a #10 earthquake and originated at universities in the U.S. which were actually used by an undisclosed party as a stepping stone to get to your domain?

This is like those national news stories we read from time to time isn't it? This must have been a coordinated attack to actually consume that much bandwidth.

Sign me flabbergasted.

[Drewdatrip]

Sorry to hear that Rev
Like Tris im at a complete loss as why you have so many DDOS..

I hope it all works out bud


=Drew

[Doggie]

arhh.. that p***es me off when ppl with no brain do such stupid things.. one too many lamers..

[gsurface]

Sorry to hear that Rev..its funny but we were just talking about that in your site about tech-critic and osbetas being hit, and now u guys,.. thats crazy!

[xsivforce]

This really sucks! I don't understand people sometimes.

I hope it gets sorted quickly Rev. I enjoy visiting you site.

[Reverend]

Thanks guys.
I don't think we were specifically targeted.Quite a few other sites were affected as well.
It looks like it might be happening again.I've just come online this morning and can't get on TZ.

[Tinker]

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

I am starting to get with drawls........

[zipp51]

Glad Techzonez is back,or is it?I still can't access the site.My understanding of DDos attacks is limited but from what I've read they most assuredly are malicious in nature.They even sent it out for a second time today.

[Reverend]

For anyone who is unsure what a DDos attack is,here's an explanation

[FthrJACK]

change your host rev!

also, heres another DrDOS guide: http://grc.com/dos/drdos.htm

basically its just pings being sent from lots of [usually hacked]machines to a target - thats the most common way of doing it and the simplest way of explaining it.

[ali_ms52]

ok guys our site flexbeta.net was down same time as tech-critic i dont know what the hell is going on ? but maybe the problem with virtua news or some dos attack, plz guys no offence to any site this is getting childlish and each site is trying to attack to other site

[ali_ms52]

also i still cant go to TZ ???? is it me or its down ??/

[Doggie]

still down my friend.. hopefully up soon

[egghead]

techzonez is down so i'll hang on here for the juicy updates

i just want to say thanks to reverend for doing such a great job with the site and keeping it alive for all of us to enjoy

cheers
egghead

[Reverend]

We are back online now. Don't know for how long this time. (fingers are crossed)

[Doggie]

Reverend, on Dec 28 2002, 08:42 PM, said:

We are back online now. Don't know for how long this time. (fingers  are crossed)

its not working for me yet