Site Downtime Today / Tonight / Friday

[Guest]

It looks like the search is broke. Also if you edit a post, it will succeed, but give you an error.

That is the very large, corrupted file.

[Guest]

Please notify me if there are any issues the next few days. The repairs got completed last night, so hopefully there are no access problems today.

 

If the problems persist, I'm probably going to have to upgrade hardware. :(

[Banedon]

Lots of "too many connections" messages this morning.

[Garwilly]

Yeah, too many connections and "mySQL"

[Banedon]

Just a reminder, if anyone is somehow able to see this, the NSBB emergency board link is:

 

http://s8.invisionfree.com/emergencynsbb/index.php

[Guest]

okay...

 

let me just say one thing: I hate mother-[expletive] hackers.

 

Apparently the commenting system wasn't set up properly on the front end of the site. Over the course of the past few days, over 3,000,000 entries were inserted into the comment system with links to viagra, porn, etc.

 

I think I've closed that opening for now, but we'll see if they find another way to attack.

[Derwood]

site has been on and off for me all day

[Banedon]

okay...

 

let me just say one thing: I hate mother-[expletive] hackers.

 

Apparently the commenting system wasn't set up properly on the front end of the site. Over the course of the past few days, over 3,000,000 entries were inserted into the comment system with links to viagra, porn, etc.

 

I think I've closed that opening for now, but we'll see if they find another way to attack.

 

I kinda wondered if was something like that when it was giving too many connections errors.

[Banedon]

I blame packers fans.

[Guest]

In the last 30 minutes, there have been 340,000 queries on the database.

 

Too bad google doesn't count bot hits for ad revenue. :(

[NCCubFan]

I blame packers fans.

I was going to blame WikiLeaks, but I like your scapegoat better.

[woodchip2153]

that probably explains why the site got blocked at work. Hopefully it's unblocked on Monday.