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June 05, 2006

DoS Attack Update

Hi everyone.

As I mentioned earlier, on Saturday mu.nu was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), which took out one of our servers, Yuri - the server that hosts most of our blogs. I posted on Ace's blog because it is hosted on a different server and was one of the few blogs still up.

I moved all the blogs to our other server, Kei, and after a few hiccups, we were up and running again.

About sixteen hours ago there was a brief attack on Kei, and then four hours ago the attack resumed in full force, taking out pretty much everything.

With the help of our hosting providers I have now firewalled off enough of Eastern Europe and East Asia that the servers are more-or-less coping. I'll need to keep a constant watch on things though.

I think - just maybe - we may have pissed somebody off.

Anyway, bedtime for me (it's 3AM here in Oz). See you all later.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:01 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Thank you, Pixy, for struggling mightily to save our blogs!

Oh, in reference to some of the comments over at Ace's place: You can be a little nutty without being a nut. Sheesh!

I hope things recover more easily now that the DDoS attack has been shielded off a bit. I really do appreciate you taking care of us.

Posted by: Dave @ at June 05, 2006 01:18 PM

2 Thank you, Pixy, for struggling mightily to save our blogs!

Oh, in reference to some of the comments over at Ace's place: You can be a little nutty without being a nut. Everyone knows that!

I hope things recover more easily now that the DDoS attack has been shielded off a bit. I really do appreciate you taking care of us.

I hope you are blessed with wonderful grandchildren . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at June 05, 2006 01:20 PM

3 Sorry about the stuttering . . . I tried the new comment thingy and got an error message, so I cut and pasted to the old comment thingy. . .

Posted by: Dave @ at June 05, 2006 01:23 PM

4 I echo Dave's sentiments, thanks Pixy!

I guess it was only a matter of time that a DDOS happened, especially on a community that so freely speaks their mind.

Posted by: Oorgo @ at June 05, 2006 03:00 PM

5 Thanks Pixy. I've noticed that I can't access my email now on the 2095 port - I can still access cPanel at 2082, but it looks as if somehow the passwords were reset or something???

Posted by: Simon @ at June 05, 2006 07:14 PM

6 Ugblugl.

I need to look into email some more. It *should* be working again now. The firewall settings are right. Your password shouldn't have changed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 05, 2006 09:49 PM

7 I hope you are blessed with wonderful grandchildren . . .

Thanks Dave. Yeah, Trixie's a good kid.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 08, 2006 04:41 AM

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