Slow Forums: PF Under DDOS Attack

[Dickfore]

still terrible.

 

[OmCheeto]

How are things now?

better.

What did you do?

Call Obama?

 

[OmCheeto]

Ahhh!

The connection has timed out
The server at www.physicsforums.com is taking too long to respond.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Who the heck invented this darned Internet thingy...

Is this why they didn't let Gore be President?

 

[caffenta]

still terrible.

Ditto.

 

[KrisOhn]

working perfectly for me atm.

 

[lurky]

I get the occasional delay but it's (at the moment) MUCH better. I always got delays before anyway so it could be pretty much back to normal for me.

 

[Proton Soup]

things have gone from completely useless, to barely useful.

very slow but kind of working.

 

[lurky]

Nope, still happening, just maybe about half the time. I still get timeouts.

 

[hadsed]

Something funny happens for me. I can't go back to the forum I was in after reading a post, but if I click the physicsforums.com link, it takes me back pretty quick like normal. I'm not really sure what this means...

 

[Lancelot59]

Seems to be back up to speed now. Sorta.

 

[Andre]

Delays for me couple of seconds or better.

Edit: Currently normal speeds appears to be back. (8:09 UTC)

 

[caffenta]

Seems better now. Still acts funky on occasion.

EDIT: damn. looks like I broke the forums by saying that...

 

[Andre]

Meanwhile it looks from here that all is normal. Maybe the attackers are asleep?

 

[Q_Goest]

PF loads in about 1 to 3 minutes for me if it loads at all. Normally only takes a few seconds. Been this way now for the past 48 hours.

 

[Char. Limit]

Where's Char...

He'd kick some Ninja butt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KVf49FkqHo

Sorry about that. I've been too busy kicking IRL butt to kick online butt.

 

[nismaratwork]

This is a test, let's see how it goes

edit: Not greased lightning, but MUCH better, maybe even back to normal.

edit 2: MUCH faster, but I think you're still losing some packets.

 

[micromass]

It's a lot better for me! Although the forum doesn't load in about 5% of the times. But the speed is almost back to normal!

 

[nismaratwork]

It's a lot better for me! Although the forum doesn't load in about 5% of the times. But the speed is almost back to normal!

OK, definitely just packet-loss then.

 

[Andre]

Meanwhile, it slowed down considerably again at the moment

 

[micromass]

Yes, it's going in waves. 15 minutes ago it was very fast. Now it goes slow again...

 

[nismaratwork]

Meanwhile, it slowed down considerably again at the moment

It's fast, you just need to click a few times if it's slow the first couple of times. Packet loss = even if the overall speed is good, sometimes your "signals" are not getting through; they're being dropped.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

the attack is still going strong. we have a couple more tricks up our sleeves, but the site won't be optimal until it stops completely.

 

[Mark44]

It's still very slow for me and pages sometimes fail to open - 7:30am PDT.

 

[nismaratwork]

the attack is still going strong. we have a couple more tricks up our sleeves, but the site won't be optimal until it stops completely.

If you've isolated even a few IPs that are part of a botnet... maybe you could post them here... not so that anyone would do anything active. Rather, we could configure our own firewalls to reject packets from that source, and then, if someone used that information unscrupulously... it's not on you.

"La shaiq' waqee mutlak bl kollin moumkin"(AC)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

If you've isolated even a few IPs that are part of a botnet... maybe you could post them here... not so that anyone would do anything active. Rather, we could configure our own firewalls to reject packets from that source, and then, if someone used that information unscrupulously... it's not on you.

"La shaiq' waqee mutlak bl kollin moumkin"(AC)

They are spoofing thousands

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We have just made another adjustment, please relay your experiences.

 

[turbo]

PF is very responsive right now.

 

[Evo]

I'm having no trouble right now.

 

[jtbell]

Definitely a lot better in the last few minutes. Feels like it's back to normal for me now.

 

[G01]

PF is very quick at the moment. Whatever you did, keep it up!

 

[dlgoff]

It's working very well now as opposed to about an hour ago.

 

[nismaratwork]

They are spoofing thousands

Of course they are, but in theory only one or two are needed for... um... "reasonable self defense".


Anyway, PF is now smooth as butter.

 

[Nabeshin]

Seems to be running normally for me for the first time since saturday!

 

[nismaratwork]

"Here we are again, happy as can be. All good friends in good company..."

 

[Evo]

Thank you Greg for all of your hard work!