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Why are so many gun forums messed up at the same time?
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Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy. In every life we have some trouble. But when you worry you make it double. Don't worry, be happy. Don't worry, be happy now.

Hang in there, Derek. These things are a huge pain.
 
I was editing my last post on THR at approx. 1600 hrs (CST). yesterday. Well before last nights Republican debate when the site went down for me. Don't know if that helps or not.

The thought of a world with no High Road is "More than I can bear."

There ain't no fleas on TFL either:D

flatdog
 
Thank you for the update.

I've been using THR to keep on top of the Illinois SB1007 situation (the regular capacity magazine ban the usual suspects are trying to weasel through as we speak).
 
DoS means denial of service. Simplest way is to flood a website with too many packets, so the website cannot handle it. Kind of like when too many users access a website and it slows down horribly.

There are many different types of packets one can use. Different ways a website handles them.

Bandwidth cost money, so THR was shutdown until something can be done.

Distributed DoS just means multiple machines are used to launch an attack. They are more effective because they can produce more packets to flood the website.

Technically speaking, any attack that causes the website to be unable to provide functionality is a denial of service attack. But it is usually associated with flooding attacks.
 
My favorite explanation of DoS, DDoS and DRDoS is found on Steve Gibson's site:

http://www.grc.com/dos/drdos.htm

It even has pictures so people like me can, if not understand it, at least understand more than if it didn't have pictures.

I wonder if a DDoS thread would qualify as a "zombie" thread?
 
Sorry to see the attacks have not stopped yet. Thanks Oleg and Derek for all the work you do so that we no accounts can fritter a day and evening away from time to time with like minded souls....excepting fistful/scapegoat that is.:D :D :D (Just Kidding, just kidding....)
 
Hey, I found everybody from THR!

...and here you are :)

Reading this thread, I'm more grateful than ever to Oleg and Derek who deal with this stuff. Thanks, guys!

Springmom
 
THR/APS sure does attract loonies who feel they need to attack us, what is up with that?
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See, now Ron is picking on me, too. :(


Give me a few minutes to rack up the post count, Ron, I'll put you back in your place. :)
 
OK, we're back up, and the firewall is telling me we're down to normal traffic patterns.

Feel free to close this thread, and thanks for allowing these off-topic threads, Mods. :)
 
Can someone explain or direct me to an explaination of what a DOS or DDOS attack consist of?
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A denial-of-service (DOS) attack is when an attacker floods a server with IP packets such as ping or SYN requests. The purpose is to overwhelm either the server's CPU or it's internet connection so it can't respond to legit users.

A distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) is when an attacker uses many computers (sometimes thousands) to launch their DOS attack. They compromise computers by taking advantage of unpatched OS bugs and/or weak user passwords and gain remote control of the machines. Then they use the compromised machines to launch DDOS attacks from all over the world.

Unfortunately, denial-of-service attacks are very effective unless you've got a whole bunch of money to spend to fend them off. DOS attacks often come with an e-mail telling you where to send $$$ in order to get the attack stopped.

Here's a pretty good Wiki article with more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
 
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