yak_dude ([info]yak_dude) wrote in [info]furaffinity,
2007-12-24 00:35:00
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FA is still down, DDoS is still commencing.

About 20 hours ago Fur Affinity went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. The site was being flooded with traffic exceeding our bandwidth limits.

Since then, the website has been on-and-off, working sparsely and showing different anomalies when it did, as it has already been reported. Apparently the people behind this DDoS are still at it, and they render our servers completely inaccessible from the internet.

So until this attack stops, neither FA, nor FA's forums will be accessible. Guess this is that proverbial lump of coal FA got as a present for this Christmas, in advance, for all the bad things it has done in the year that nearly passed.

We apologize for this inconvenience, and any further updates will be posted here, since FA's forums became an unstable platform for relaying information.

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Fur Affinity is currently up and running, but we don't know for how long. In case of another wave of incoming traffic, i am afraid we would have to go offline again.

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[info]hellebore

December 23 2007, 23:20:16 UTC 4 years ago

eagerly wanting to know how you and your comrades are going to prevent such downtimes in the future.

[info]award

December 23 2007, 23:36:54 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  December 23 2007, 23:37:11 UTC

Sadly I doubt there is little they can do about some fat, no-life, chip eating cunt deciding he's going to wave around his seldom used penis and fuck with someone's website. Because they have no life...

I know I may have just described a typical furry just then too...

Sad fact of life is that there are always some sad fuckers out there who do this stuff because they have nothing else better to do...I would pity them but I can't get close enough because of the stench.

Wardy

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[info]cesarin

December 23 2007, 23:29:33 UTC 4 years ago

dont you mean "DDOS continues"
since if it already is down and already on it, why is "still commencing"? o_o

[info]award

December 23 2007, 23:37:37 UTC 4 years ago

Who gives a flying f**k?

Wardy

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[info]inaki

December 23 2007, 23:29:47 UTC 4 years ago

DoS attacks suck. I know firsthand. We had someone DoSing Puppybreak.com. I mean cmon! Its pictures of puppies!

Thankfully we had an awesome ISP who pulled some router voodoo and we never lost connectivity.

[info]c_eagle

December 24 2007, 00:18:41 UTC 4 years ago

This is really awful, and I'm definitely missing the site :/
I wonder if they are trying to steal the domain name also.. *grrrr* ... I just wondered because if you look at those LiveJournal Snapshots popups in an entry (like a href="http://community.livejournal.com/furbuy/7612.html">this</a> one, it looks as if the main page is one of those generic ones. (??)
Seems like predators are always out there trying to mess with a good thing... *sigh* -_-

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[info]wolf_nymph

December 23 2007, 23:36:33 UTC 4 years ago

;___; That so sucks, I was looking forward to posting something... Poor FA! <3

[info]award

December 23 2007, 23:38:52 UTC 4 years ago

Dont apologise chap...you are not the one responsible...

When the culprit is found he or she should have their computer locked away and be made to actually go out and socialise with their fellow man for a while.

Wardy

[info]sci

December 24 2007, 12:40:27 UTC 4 years ago

You mean socialise with cricket bats?

[info]inaki

December 23 2007, 23:41:46 UTC 4 years ago

Actually, in the absence of FA being up (and I think it'd be taboo to advertise my own site on another site's "We're down!" message), take a look at [info]furryartdump for random art postings.

[info]xipoid

December 23 2007, 23:51:37 UTC 4 years ago

This reminds me of a situation once where a group of gaming servers were being DDoS'd. The attack was being routed from non-US territory, which somehow drew the attention of the FBI Cyberterrorism unit. Nothing panned out, but the fact that FBI agents came down to the humble little data center and collected evidence entertained me.


Either way, fun stuff... I guess, or rather GG.

[info]gas_mask_dragon

December 24 2007, 00:07:29 UTC 4 years ago

I'm grateful that the FA peoplez are working on getting the site back up. I'm not going to bitch about loosing service to a site that I can go onto for FREE!

Come on people, they don't charge for anything on FA, you should be damn grateful for what you have and not BITCH when it's down.

[info]eddiecanis

December 24 2007, 01:11:44 UTC 4 years ago

but ..

I want double my money back :) that make me a 00.

You are so right.

"what are the admins going to do" Pfff, mabey they take their money and go enjoy something else in life.

Anyway I do like the service and hope it gets back up soon, in the mean while I got other things I can always be doing with the time.

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[info]lope

December 24 2007, 00:13:53 UTC 4 years ago

I have been planning for FA to go offline again for the holidays since late November. As a result I recently started a "longer term" project that I will not be uploading until the New Year. In the future this will be my mode of operation when any holidays are coming up.... adopt, adapt and improvise.

[info]hellebore

December 24 2007, 00:48:23 UTC 4 years ago

hyena love

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[info]skycroc

December 24 2007, 16:53:19 UTC 4 years ago

Overreacting much, Mr Internet toughie?

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[info]taigitsune

December 24 2007, 01:27:10 UTC 4 years ago

Wouldn't it be simple just to drop any packets but HTTP packets and have a script block any IPs that make more than say 10 connections? They make scripts for APF, CSF, and iptables that do that sort of thing. Obviously if it's an ICMP flood, drop ICMP packets and so on? Not being a smartass or anything. I see it all the time as a Web Hosting Technician.

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[info]punktiger

December 24 2007, 01:56:08 UTC 4 years ago

If there's any plus in all this, I'm at least glad I managed to get a donation into FA before the DDoS attack started.

[info]lapis_snowmeow

December 24 2007, 08:34:29 UTC 4 years ago

link's still here

=> http://zme.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/P3T1KZWMTADMRG/102-9957116-3488112 ;)

Cheers tiggy & Have a good Christmas/New Year ^^
d./uncia

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[info]mac_dragon

December 24 2007, 03:59:03 UTC 4 years ago


I need my fix.

*twitch*

[info]sorethumb

December 24 2007, 04:25:20 UTC 4 years ago

It sucks, but I suppose I can use this as an opportunity to draw. :o :3

[info]shabm

December 24 2007, 04:30:29 UTC 4 years ago

I'm going to finish that Shout It Out meme that's been going around.

I have the base image, I have the 101 shouts, I just need to be unlazy and use Paint.net to combine the two.

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[info]acthelion

December 24 2007, 07:58:49 UTC 4 years ago

I'm looking forward to finding out the IP addresses logged in the server log.

[info]kupok

December 24 2007, 10:11:41 UTC 4 years ago

In an effective DDos attack, those IP addresses are useless.

DDoS attacks need several compromised computers to be effective. Those IP address you'll find are mostly old grannies and kids who have no busness on the internet with unpatched, unprotected systems with tons of adware and spyware.

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[info]sulacoyote

December 24 2007, 10:25:04 UTC 4 years ago

GAY

[info]yak_dude

December 24 2007, 10:41:38 UTC 4 years ago

Whatever you say *shrug*

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[info]taigitsune

December 24 2007, 12:18:50 UTC 4 years ago

Whoever is responsible for this must be swimming in cash. As I understand it, botnets are not cheap. Are there any filtering rules at the server or router level, perchance?

[info]espilonarge

December 24 2007, 12:49:09 UTC 4 years ago

Looks like the forums are down as well. Either they "know" about it or someone on the otherside borked the forum-server.

[info]its_a_trap

December 24 2007, 14:31:16 UTC 4 years ago

The only thing wrong with the forum is that the mysql is broken.

Last time I checked anyway.

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[info]ferinoch

December 24 2007, 15:23:32 UTC 4 years ago

No apologies necessary. It's just really sad that some jerk decided the best thing we could do with his life is try to tear down what others have worked hard for. We'll still be here when the shit storm passes. Our little fandom has survived such crap before.

[info]royal_dog

December 24 2007, 16:20:53 UTC 4 years ago

Please tell me you guys have been looking into countermeasures instead of just twiddling your thumbs and trying to wait it out.

[info]witchiebunny

December 24 2007, 17:01:05 UTC 4 years ago

Wouldn't you think that they have? Unfortunately, it's kind of Christmas Eve, and I'm sure getting a datacenter to respond on the eve of what is arguably one of the biggest holidays of our culture is, at best, a tad bit difficult.

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[info]karoug_wolf

December 24 2007, 17:44:49 UTC 4 years ago

It's up again!

It looks fine now! It's been up for a few minutes.

I still can't access the forum though.

[info]huskee_beardog

December 24 2007, 18:46:02 UTC 4 years ago

You'd think if someone was going to try and shut down a site they'd at least pick something that would actually make a difference in the world, rather than a site like this which is just a nice fun little community.


[info]xipoid

December 24 2007, 18:55:47 UTC 4 years ago

Therein lies the beauty of the attack. Hit someone small enough that they won't draw much attention (and thus undesirable retaliation/repercussion) but big enough to vindicate the aggression.


I'm sure that attacking some website that made a difference in the world would lead to a very upset legal institution coming down on them.

[info]menagerie73

December 24 2007, 20:54:50 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks for sticking it out and getting the site back up.

[info]glashund

December 24 2007, 20:59:38 UTC 4 years ago

Just wanted to say, to Yak and any other admins following this thread: thanks for all your efforts, and for keeping us posted.
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