Little f*** up. [Archive]

luck777jojo

16th January 2006, 10:30

Forums have been down for the past 3 days (hopefully you guys noticed).

It was mainly because MPC was DDoSed on late thursday and most of friday.

The DDoS was take care of on friday however it seemed like our server hosting company decided to let all their tech guys go get drunk the entire weekend so server stayed off of the network since friday when it was originally taken down.

Neither I nor any of the other admins could bring the server back up remotely since it required someone to be physically at the data center and that was not possible.

Again sorry about the downtime, I will make it up to you guys soon, just hold on a few more days while I get things set up ;)

o({})o

16th January 2006, 10:41

Glad to see the hosting company woke up finally ^.^

Rented

16th January 2006, 11:30

meh i hope they all get real bad hang overs , bunch of bums... i mean you pay for a serviceand they **** off and get drunk?!?!? kinda poor customer carein my eyes....

Atleast the forums are back and we spam , spam , SPAM to our hearts content!!!!!!!!!!!

Rented

noob-cheater

16th January 2006, 11:45

Damn... It's been one boring sunday :(

Anyway Im glad its fixed. I hope those who attacked up get theirs.

rought

16th January 2006, 12:36

Whats a DDOS....??
is that a mass packet attack that overtakes the server with data?

noob-cheater

16th January 2006, 12:59

Here I quote a short description.DDoS (Destributed Denial of Service)
A DDoS attack comes from multiple computers. A Flood Network (or botnet) enables the attacker to simuntaniously send out false and/or numerous packs. The actual attacker is a single computer, which remains unidentified while it controls several other computers. After such an attack, the victim computer is compleatly unable to perform tasks.

SYN FLOODING
Here the TCP 3way handshaking is used.
Usually a connection to another computer is put up in the 3-way handshaking method.

the client wants to make a connection in this case

Steps:

1) Client -> SYN -> Server
2) Client <- ACK <- Server
3) Client-> SYN & ACK -> Server

A connection to the server at a given port results and data can be confused by HTTP (port 80) or FTP (port 21).

the resulting problem is that an incomplete connection is made to the server, if the client does not make the 3rd step.

In the SYN flooding attack, the first step is repeated so many times until the Backloh Value is reached. The server does not take in any more commands, not even from other legit clients.

rought

16th January 2006, 13:31

thanks....

Diddle

16th January 2006, 13:38

Bah, stupid host. Glad it's all fixed now, server is still as fast as ever. :P

Virtuosofriend

16th January 2006, 14:58

Glad to see the hosting company woke up finally ^.^indeed.Really wierd to keep the server off the network for so long,DDos was over at least 48hrs ago.

KizZamP-

16th January 2006, 18:49

ah i missed mpc,though i did enjoy it on uc...
i hope it won't happen again.

MangekyoItachi

16th January 2006, 19:23

I thought what happened to the server past few days...
i'm so glad to have the server back

rought

16th January 2006, 20:13

DDOS kept UC down for over a week..
guess they dont have Luck777 ...to bad for them..

Sudden Death

16th January 2006, 20:38

mmhmm.. or maybe their company got more drunk and went into a coma for 5 days?

Again sorry about the downtime, I will make it up to you guys soon, just hold on a few more days while I get things set up
:o was ist das?

gil

16th January 2006, 21:38

What happened, happened already.
Now we're up and rocking again.

At least I didn't miss too much while I was away ;)

Skyline_R34

16th January 2006, 21:43

Again sorry about the downtime, I will make it up to you guys soon, just hold on a few more days while I get things set up
I don't see why you have to apoligize for the hosting company's **** up. <--Just trying to gt the cheer back up.
I almost died without my daily dose of MPC. I get pretty cranky if I can't get on MPC or Agerage..Now imagine what would happen to me if both went down O.o

Sudden Death

16th January 2006, 21:56

yes gil, it was just a coincidence wasnt it.. a very convenient coincidence.. :bandit:

gil

16th January 2006, 22:27

yes gil, it was just a coincidence wasnt it.. a very convenient coincidence.. :bandit:
What? Who? Where? No!:P

xcc-nostradamus

17th January 2006, 00:05

gil

17th January 2006, 00:11

You're telling me, 3 days without MPC makes a difference, and I discovered there are other things to spend my time doing... until it came back up, and here I am. Where exactly is the data center located?
Exactly?
You want a street address and a zip code or what?:P

It's located in Europe :)

PS. If you really need it, you can find it yourself easily.

Virtuosofriend

17th January 2006, 02:03

I almost died without my daily dose of MPC. I get pretty cranky if I can't get on MPC or Agerage..Now imagine what would happen to me if both went down O.oagerage was down when? o.O

Diddle

17th January 2006, 11:22

Never, but he's talking theoretically. Don't be offended!!!!!!!! Things can still work out between you. :x

;)

luck777jojo

17th January 2006, 20:24

agerage was down when? o.O

when you had that little "vbb problem" agerage was down for a while ;) :P

Sudden Death

17th January 2006, 22:23

he said if they both go down he would be super-cranky =o

s3xt0y

18th January 2006, 03:17

wont a DDoS cut into your bandwith?

o({})o

18th January 2006, 04:18

wont a DDoS cut into your bandwith?

Maybe just a little. :x

Chaotik

18th January 2006, 08:32

Glad to see you guys back up again...

No1uKnow

18th January 2006, 08:46

indeed, Mpc > life lol jk

if ( MPC == NULL ) No1->CryAmount('100', true ); // second param is for repeat

ihateacid

19th January 2006, 03:03

^^ add
SmashComputer = TRUE
ThrowScreenOntoFloor = TRUE
SpamMPCAdminEmail = 99999999

boredom :(

gil

19th January 2006, 21:39

it's up guys, clam down :P