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  1. Bauul

    Bauul Sir Bongaminge

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    Oh sorry, that was my bad. I won't do it again.
     
    Bauul, 6 Mar 2008
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  2. Shadowed_fury

    Shadowed_fury Minimodder

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    What does that mean Jamie... Targeted?:grr:
     
    Shadowed_fury, 6 Mar 2008
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  3. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Terrorism?
     
    steveo_mcg, 6 Mar 2008
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  4. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    DDoS in simple terms, lots of traffic from hundreds of IP's to a single page.
     
    Jamie, 6 Mar 2008
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  5. Shadowed_fury

    Shadowed_fury Minimodder

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    So was it an attack then? Seems a bit strange!
     
    Shadowed_fury, 6 Mar 2008
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  6. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Nah, I reckon those guys over at Hexus do it all the time :p
    </joke>
     
    Flibblebot, 6 Mar 2008
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  7. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    Yeah, but they normally suck so hard that Jamie just ignore them ;)

    also IIRC (J may need to confirm this), sigs are disabled for users with less then 10 posts due to this.
     
    DougEdey, 6 Mar 2008
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  8. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    Yes, sigs are disabled for those with less than 10 posts.
     
    Tim S, 6 Mar 2008
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  9. airchie

    airchie What's a Dremel?

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    So was it a deliberate DDOS attack or was it a /. effect to a popular article or something?
     
    airchie, 6 Mar 2008
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  10. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    Deliberate attack, the page that was being requested was the user profile of a recently banned Russian spammer.
     
    Jamie, 7 Mar 2008
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  11. Delphium

    Delphium Eyefinity enabled

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    Russian spammer:.. If i cant post, no one can!


    Lameness on an epic scale.
     
    Delphium, 7 Mar 2008
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  12. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    A lot of forums are being abused, for want of a better word; see here. Note comments 20, 21 where the author's bollixed the link. The message is, don't start a no-registration & unmoderated forum, blog or comments section on your site. It will attract abuse like **** attracts flies. :sigh:
     
    cpemma, 7 Mar 2008
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  13. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    lol, did you notice he was advertising antobiotics for VD???

    Just a reminder that there is a lot of turds floating around in the gene pool.
     
    Cthippo, 7 Mar 2008
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  14. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Well you know the obvious solution here is to just post his IP on the homepage and have us return the favor :D
     
    Firehed, 7 Mar 2008
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  15. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    I believe there were several hundred IPs :)
     
    Tim S, 7 Mar 2008
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  16. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    I wonder what it cost him to rent the botnet.

    EDIT Did it happen again earlier? I was getting the same message about 7 hours ago.
     
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    Cthippo, 7 Mar 2008
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  17. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    Not from what I can see looking at the bandwidth usage. We flat-lined when the attack was going on, but it looked pretty normal overnight.
     
    Tim S, 8 Mar 2008
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  18. WalleyM

    WalleyM What's a Dremel?

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    i got it too
     
    WalleyM, 8 Mar 2008
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  19. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    Again I was forced to go else where last night and indeed the first time this happened. These DoS attacks are lame T_T
     
    koola, 8 Mar 2008
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  20. specofdust

    specofdust Banned

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    If it's a spammer, the botnet is almost certainly their own. A few hundred IPs, have to feel sorry for someone with an epeen that small :(
     
    specofdust, 8 Mar 2008
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