DDoS?
Server fee not paid?
Just tried it. Timed out. Server expressed no real reason.
Hopefully someone just needs to kick the server cabinet...
Let's not forget that we're on the tail end of xmas vacation... ;)
most likely a result of the DDoS attack on BBC.
Server records point to a london hosting, nothing weird on dns records (changed) etc.
I have no trouble opening BBC's news site. Why should a DDoS attack on them affect another site? Are they on BBC's servers?
The site is up now, I just registered.
Quote from: A Nonny Moose on January 03, 2016, 08:37:01 AM
I have no trouble opening BBC's news site. Why should a DDoS attack on them affect another site? Are they on BBC's servers?
The site is up now, I just registered.
i had trouble accessing bbc.co.uk and .com due to the DDoS.
a DDoS can be seen as a torrential of packets towards one or more servers, hosted at one or more hosting sites (server / co location / data warehouse)
traffic to/from those servers are as you know by multiple paths over the internet, if well configured.
so if one path over route x is jammed, due to a problem, it is rerouted to route y, where it also can reach a certain server.
eventually, both routes (original and one or more backups) will be jammed, making the hosting site and its customers unavailable.
now routers in networks around/connecting to the hosting site will slowly fail, since they can't route the packets to its destination.
making even more jams.. etc.
see it as morning rush in LA flooding all the freeways
Yes, I am aware of what a DDoS consists of. I can even think of all kinds of reasons why certain people would want to engage in such a thing.
FYI I was an ARPAnet user for years on UNIX-based gear, and this kind of thing didn't happen because everyone on that net had a common goal of cooperation. The Internet, being public, has a different common purpose. Nothing restrains the malicious from making life more difficult for the rest of us.
Just think, the guy who made all this happen got a Nobel Prize for it. I am not sure that building the tower of babel was worth it.
even before the WWW there were hackers and coders trying to figure things out,
heck my internet service provider was a club of hackers with the goal of getting people access to the "information super highway" ;)
but yes overall people had a common goal.
i'm not old enough to have used ARPAnet/NSFNet/UUCPnet or their dutch counterparts knowingly,
most likely the services i used, connected to it.
Still i'm old enough to remember the BBS days and later use those BBSes and FidoNet to access other parts of the net via the gopher protocol, Archie (files) and Veronica (search). Of course the use of IRC as well, way before common use of the "world wide web", even CompuServe account was before those days.. and i'm not even 40 :)
But yeah, on one hand its great to have access to everything (like this game, it's mods and the forum with all the players), but on the other hand it's maybe a little too much, everyting "on the web".
Well, this is supposed to be progress. I generally avoid annoyances like malware by using the belt and suspenders technique. Not only am I on Linux, but I run a virus scanner and a firewall.
... and again, since yesterday.
Perhaps the server should move to another web hoster that is not hosting / routing to big sites whose are potential hacker targets.
Tried it just now. No soap.