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 June 5, 2006 12:01 PM | TrackBackThank 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 5, 2006 01:18 PMThank 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 5, 2006 01:20 PMSorry 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 5, 2006 01:23 PMI 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 5, 2006 03:00 PMThanks 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 5, 2006 07:14 PMUgblugl.
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.
I hope you are blessed with wonderful grandchildren . . .
Thanks Dave. Yeah, Trixie's a good kid.
Posted by Pixy Misa at June 8, 2006 04:41 AM