ALERT survivalblog attack

ibetiny

ibetiny

Veteran Member
I just tried to log onto survivalblog.com and couldn't connect to their site. When I tried again I got this message. "Our site is being DOS attacked, please do not reload this page." Could some of you who are computer guru's shed some light on what this means and what we could do to help. Also how would we protect TB2K and our own computers.

thanks
ibetiny
 
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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
BEST thing you can do is NOT try to access the site.

A DOS attack is when millions of logon attempts clog the server.
 
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Publius

On TB every waking moment
ibetiny said:
I just tried to log onto survivalblog.com and couldn't connect to their site. When I tried again I got this message. "Our site is being DOS attacked, please do not reload this page." Could some of you who are computer guru's shed some light on what this means and what we could do to help. Also how would we protect TB2K and our own computers.

thanks
ibetiny
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Odd because when a site is under a DOS attack nothing gets in or out.
 
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Jeep

Veteran Member
Denial of Service attack. Someone is overloading the site and do not want people to access the site that normally log onto to it.
 
ElkHollow

ElkHollow

Inactive
I was able to get into SurvivalBlog this morning at about 8a PT, and read numerous posts for approx 30 min. Everything seemed OK at that time.

Mrs. E......

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Tckaija

Tckaija

One generation behind...
One can always use the numeric address that JWR posted on his front page... hxxp://95.143.193.148/ (change the xx to tt)

that address is the IP for his alternate web site... he'd mention several months ago that if things go too screwey with using the DNS servers that address should work.
 
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TerryK

TB Fanatic
Didn't he mention just a couple of weeks ago that he was changing servers?
Said he was relocating the main and backup servers outside the country I believe.
 
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medic38572

TB Fanatic
Tckaija said:
One can always use the numeric address that JWR posted on his front page... hxxp://95.143.193.148/ (change the xx to tt)

that address is the IP for his alternate web site... he'd mention several months ago that if things go too screwey with using the DNS servers that address should work.
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It didn't help
The server at 95.143.193.148 is taking too long to respond.
 
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kua

Veteran Member
I am also unable to log on to survivalblog with either addresss. Hope it gets cleared up quickly.
 
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Khaki

Contributing Member
Patrice Lewis's blog has a writeup about what happened: This is copied from her site at http://www.rural-revolution.com/

WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

Several readers have emailed and asked why they've been unable to get on SurvivalBlog.com lately. We haven't been able to either. This is the official announcement:

This weekend, our server in Sweden was put under a "ping flood" Denial of Service (DOS) attack that resulted in 65% packet loss for a few hours.

This attack was most likely orchestrated by the man in Texas who last week anonymously sent me a racist rant and threats against both my blog site and my books. (His e-mail began: "You ****** lover you have five days to take all links and any [sic] metion for [sic] links below off your site. If you [sic] dont [sic] do it I will post [sic] everyone [sic] of [sic] you [sic] cr***y books on [sic] prirate [sic] sites and kiss your ****** loving income from them good [sic] by [sic] .")

The attack was timed for a three-day holiday weekend, because the miscreants expected that the staff at our ISP would be unavailable to help up reconfigure.

OBTW, the attack did not initially include our dotted quad backup address: 95.143.193.148 (Which is explained here.)

At least this provided a good test for our Continuity of Web Services (COWS) defenses. Obviously, we are now going to need multiple mirror sites as well as an adaptive cloud server that can handle any future DOS onslaught.

The other lesson this teaches is the importance of having a backup. We provide an offline archive of the past six years of SurvivalBlog posts, available for a modest price.

~Jim Rawles~
Editor, www.SurvivalBlog.com

There is also an update posted on the excellent blog The Orange Jeep Dad, so go take a look at that. Please excuse the language, though Orange Jeep Dad did some admirable deleting.

I never fail to shake my head at the astounding depths of hatred which lurk in some people. Please pray that the SurvivalBlog folks can get things straightened out.
 
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meandk0610

Veteran Member
Khaki said:
Patrice Lewis's blog has a writeup about what happened: This is copied from her site at http://www.rural-revolution.com/

WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

Several readers have emailed and asked why they've been unable to get on SurvivalBlog.com lately. We haven't been able to either. This is the official announcement:

This weekend, our server in Sweden was put under a "ping flood" Denial of Service (DOS) attack that resulted in 65% packet loss for a few hours.

This attack was most likely orchestrated by the man in Texas who last week anonymously sent me a racist rant and threats against both my blog site and my books. (His e-mail began: "You ****** lover you have five days to take all links and any [sic] metion for [sic] links below off your site. If you [sic] dont [sic] do it I will post [sic] everyone [sic] of [sic] you [sic] cr***y books on [sic] prirate [sic] sites and kiss your ****** loving income from them good [sic] by [sic] .")

The attack was timed for a three-day holiday weekend, because the miscreants expected that the staff at our ISP would be unavailable to help up reconfigure.

OBTW, the attack did not initially include our dotted quad backup address: 95.143.193.148 (Which is explained here.)

At least this provided a good test for our Continuity of Web Services (COWS) defenses. Obviously, we are now going to need multiple mirror sites as well as an adaptive cloud server that can handle any future DOS onslaught.

The other lesson this teaches is the importance of having a backup. We provide an offline archive of the past six years of SurvivalBlog posts, available for a modest price.

~Jim Rawles~
Editor, www.SurvivalBlog.com

There is also an update posted on the excellent blog The Orange Jeep Dad, so go take a look at that. Please excuse the language, though Orange Jeep Dad did some admirable deleting.

I never fail to shake my head at the astounding depths of hatred which lurk in some people. Please pray that the SurvivalBlog folks can get things straightened out.
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has anyone purchased his archive? was it worth it?
 
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