DOS attacks

[Petunia]

It's actually called a DoS rather than a DOS attack.

Anyway, thanks for dealing with it, everyone. I never understood why anyone would do something like that - as it doesn't really mean anything, and certainly does not add anything positive in life (theirs).

Depending on how severe the attack is.. it most certainly can mean something. It could cause the forum to be shut down. In the one that happened a few years ago.. it was a deliberate attempt to shut that specific forum down. And if I'm remembering correctly.. it worked. Certainly caused enough havoc.. there was talk about it even on other forums. And I think it was an ez board forum at the time.. under the old ezboard system. Or maybe the forums doing the attacking were a group from ezboard. I don't quite remember.. but it was a vicious mean spirited thing to do.

 

[Orchids]

Depending on how severe the attack is.. it most certainly can mean something. It could cause the forum to be shut down. In the one that happened a few years ago.. it was a deliberate attempt to shut that specific forum down. And if I'm remembering correctly.. it worked. Certainly caused enough havoc.. there was talk about it even on other forums. And I think it was an ez board forum at the time.. under the old ezboard system. Or maybe the forums doing the attacking were a group from ezboard. I don't quite remember.. but it was a vicious mean spirited thing to do.

Well of course it can shut a site down. That isn't what I meant. There is nothing positive in this type of thing was my point. It ends up not "meaning anything or adding anything positive" to that person(s) life. It's a complete waste.

:o

 

[Gazelle]

is there a way to prevent this from happening again?

 

[r911steven]

The attacks keep evolving so we have to constantly come up with new ways to block it.

 

[sc4s2cg]

I was wondering why Disk Operating System attacks were happening only realised as I was reading that it was Denial of Service. Can you tell I've mucked about with computers for a wee while?

Me too!

Thanks Erwin and Lee and everyone.

G-d bless,
sc

 

[Letalis]

They're still at it?

 

[happydance]

Thanks for letting us know what was going on.

Happy to here you have blocked the IP attackes and gotten things under control.

 

[kiwimac]

They're still at it?

Apparently so.

 

[Victrixa]

Grrrr, now these people really need to find some constructive hobbies! Attacking these forums or any website is not a very intelligent thing to do!

 

[Lindon Tinuviel]

It's pretty easy to set up an otherwise innocent server to act as a springboard for launching DoS attacks. It's not that much harder to code it to be self-propogating so that it attacks through different IP blocks or domains.

Why anyone would want to, though, is beyond me. It's a pretty lowbrow, ham-fisted way to trash a messageboard, and it is mostly pointless--once the attacks end, there is no lasting harm done to the board.

There are more sophisticated and elegant methods which are actually effective in the long-term. Since they are not using them, I submit that the attackers are novices, inexperienced wannabes, and they shouldn't be too terribly hard to stop.

 

[BORNAGAIN2]

Is this the same thing that happened again this weekend too?
We might as well forget weekends on here
It appears some people are full of revenge

 

[Tariel]

I guess it's good to know there's a reason behind it all, but still......that sucks.

 

[pastel]

This is something a 13 year old can do - DoS attacks. Certainly very childish.

 

[LeeD]

We have upgraded our Database server and think we have found something capable of withstanding these attacks. We shall see how it hols up and if we see more attacks.

 

[kiwimac]

Lee,

Thanks to you and all the others who have been working on this since the DoS attacks began.

kiwimac