Past Few Days

[Oscar]

The past few days the site was out due to an attack on coasters2k.com which took out their server and in turn turned into something bigger and taking out the DNS server of the host. During the meantime I was in a fight with one registrar moving records over. Needless to say things got fixed and are switched and hotwired so we should be all set I guess. So yeah, people running sites, keep your software up to date, add all patches etc so stuff does not happen to you. We lost no data, we lost no files, we are intact, except for lost evenue from ad clicks etc but all else is fine.
WWS

Glad to see you back!

I had hoped that the absence was due to voluntary pulling down to escape nastiness, as opposed to viral crashes, etc.

GREAT that nothing was lost!

Welcome back

So glad to have you guys back! It was getting very boring without being able to come to this site. Great to hear that nothing was lost either. [:)]

Yay the sites back! Thats all i have to say...

w000t! but what does the attack on C2k have to do with this site?

[Oscar]

complicated for me to explain, ask sixflagsfiesta for an answer there

[hyyyper]

^i actually understood that...

[Oscar]

Originally posted by hyyyper

^i actually understood that...

crap the world is coming to an end.

[hyyyper]

^it's not me, school gives me ICT-classes

Originally posted by hyyyper

^i actually understood that...

I sure didn't.[dunno]

I am glad we have members like SFF and Tcon that put a lot of work into keeping the site up and running. So to SFF, WWS and all other who worked on getting through the last few days, thank you very much. Your efforts are very much appreciated.[worship]

I have no idea what that meant..

[Oscar]

yeah too much downtime, that's it, free hosting for a year, right?

[Brtnboarder495]

All that matters is that the network is up and running and nearly nothing was destroyed [:)]

I'm not sure if it's right for me to ask, but are you taking measures to prevent this from happening again?

[Oscar]

we did nothing wrong, was on SFF, word is he is taking measures to ensure that this does not happen again

Originally posted by SixFlagsFiesta

Gigabyte01 = Shared Hosting / DNS /
Gigabyte02 = Backup Server /DNS/
Gigabyte03 = Network Applciance / DDOS Mitigation / Attack Detection / Traffic Grapher
Ensim = Shared Hosting Control Panel


Well what happened was that Gigabyte01 was attacked with a mysql injection and they wiped out all tables in MySql database, after that ensim fliped out and shutdown all the sites and killed DNS. Than they some how exploited the backup server and totaly wiped out the OS, we think they got into the NAS software with brute force or some exploit. After that they packeted flooded Gigabyte03 untill it went into "saftey" mode. (Shuts off the network card)Luckily weeweeslap was commenting on all the spelling mistakes on our website and noticed a tag message and we shut off the server. Luckily only about 12 customers were affected 3 with DNS and 9 with shared hosting.That about sums it up.

thery killed nintendo DNS? that system kicks so much ass, those bastards!

[Brtnboarder495]

Was that supposed to be funny? If so ..

Originally posted by WeeWeeSlap

was on SFF, word is he is taking measures to ensure that this does not happen again

You can count on it never happening again. That is for dang sure. [}:)]

I don't know if this has anything to do with what happened, but the dropdown windows do not work in the nav bar below the header. I can go to the coaster exchange, but I can't get to the upload track, cool coasters, or my coaster links. It only happens on the homepage though.

[Oscar]

hmm, I dunno, all seems to be working fine here, there's no code changes or anything like that, hopefully it fixes itself.

I am glad no files were lost[approve]

Well, no files were lost from WWS ... but yeah, lots to do to ensure this never happens again to any of us.

When do you think C2K will be back up? I was thinking of joining.

You'll have to ask SFF ... I realized this morning that even the temp page was now down, so I am not sure what is going on????

Well at least the sites back up, also WWS I like your Avatar.

[Brtnboarder495]

SFF is the owner of C2K right?