Huge lag problems and timeouts...
 

I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem?

It took me about 10 minutes to be able to log in and get to this forum, and another 5 minutes for the New Thread window to open...

Of course, it has taken me several tries to post this, as well.

yes ... each link works on 1/10 tries ... times out the rest

yes yes yes me too!

Since about 1pm EST. I was trying to post a thread about it. hopefully this message will post w/o timing out

Same here... started about 1PM.

The load on the web server was astronomical, but it's eased back now (1.75 now; 543.91 was the highest I recorded during the freak-out).

Someone trying to DNS the forum? -eek-

I was thinking i'd have to physically run my posts cross-country...

yes, it's still going slow as shit...

slow as hell for me too...

No problems here!

<just kidding response time sucks>

Same here.

Still lagging quite a bit on my connection. Not having a problem with other web sites.

Still terrible here.

Here's the traceroute:

http://easynews.com/trace/index.phtm...ww.dvdtalk.com
---------------------------------


Testing the network route from EASYNEWS.COM to WWW.DVDTALK.COM...
Started on Wednesday February 15th, 2006 at 22:09:28 GMT (1140066568)

HOST LOSS RCVD SENT BEST AVG WORST
10.10.10.1 0% 10 10 0.36 0.47 0.65
ae0-4000m.core-02.phx1.puregig.net 0% 10 10 0.37 1.15 6.61
65.118.182.93 0% 10 10 0.74 0.85 1.09
205.171.129.85 0% 10 10 1.19 1.28 1.60
67.14.10.58 0% 10 10 52.27 61.33 101.95
205.171.213.106 0% 10 10 52.66 54.60 66.28
64.200.249.165 0% 10 10 52.44 54.66 73.74
anhmca1wcx2-pos5-0.wcg.net 0% 10 10 31.42 35.06 66.62
anhmca1wcx2-pos10-0.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.49 113.88 290.76
dllstx9lce1-pos4-0-oc48.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.72 53.82 53.99
dllstx9lce1-yipes.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.72 58.08 95.59
66.7.164.66 0% 10 10 92.60 93.05 95.04
dvdtalk.com 0% 10 10 55.16 56.06 58.57

Testing the network route from EASYNEWS.COM to WWW.DVDTALK.COM...
Started on Wednesday February 15th, 2006 at 22:11:07 GMT (1140066667)

HOST LOSS RCVD SENT BEST AVG WORST
10.10.10.1 0% 10 10 0.38 4.46 39.91
ae0-4000m.core-02.phx1.puregig.net 0% 10 10 0.41 10.76 71.48
65.118.182.93 0% 10 10 0.79 6.64 47.65
205.171.129.85 0% 10 10 1.20 13.19 45.35
67.14.10.58 0% 10 10 52.31 66.08 115.55
205.171.213.106 0% 10 10 52.76 103.58 265.66
64.200.249.165 0% 10 10 52.48 53.95 59.91
anhmca1wcx2-pos5-0.wcg.net 0% 10 10 31.48 31.67 32.10
anhmca1wcx2-pos10-0.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.46 61.32 128.56
dllstx9lce1-pos4-0-oc48.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.79 54.23 57.26
dllstx9lce1-yipes.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.76 60.65 95.97
66.7.164.66 0% 10 10 92.74 97.67 138.29
dvdtalk.com 0% 10 10 55.15 58.59 80.99

Testing the network route from EASYNEWS.COM to WWW.DVDTALK.COM...
Started on Wednesday February 15th, 2006 at 22:25:39 GMT (1140067539)

HOST LOSS RCVD SENT BEST AVG WORST
10.10.10.1 0% 10 10 0.34 0.39 0.56
ae0-4000m.core-02.phx1.puregig.net 0% 10 10 0.35 29.62 103.10
65.118.182.93 0% 10 10 0.72 11.20 104.99
205.171.129.85 0% 10 10 1.15 1.94 7.11
67.14.10.58 0% 10 10 52.24 55.12 80.29
205.171.213.106 0% 10 10 52.71 100.63 264.26
64.200.249.165 0% 10 10 52.42 52.51 52.60
anhmca1wcx2-pos5-0.wcg.net 0% 10 10 31.45 35.24 68.98
anhmca1wcx2-pos10-0.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.37 111.51 251.80
dllstx9lce1-pos4-0-oc48.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.72 53.77 53.88
dllstx9lce1-yipes.wcg.net 0% 10 10 53.75 55.85 73.52
66.7.164.66 0% 10 10 92.73 93.00 93.32
dvdtalk.com 0% 10 10 55.20 55.78 56.89

543.91 :whofart:

Yeah loads like that just don't happen unless somethings up:)

It's Das Monkey. It looks like its a DNS attack but it's really him trying to post in every single TV talk thread at the same time.

maybe it's just a coincidence, but it seems to happen each time before I see the sex offender google ad.

It's still HORRIBLE.

I pretty much gave up on the site all afternoon. Seems to be fine now though.

Since yesterday DVDTalk.com has been under attack. We're working on finding a way to defeat the attack. It's a pretty bad attack.

I'd just like to point out that I had nothing to do with it. NOTHING! I'd also like to point out that Groucho borrowed my "How To Initiate A Denial Of Service Attack And Influence People" handbook yesterday.

Say Geoff, if you get any verified IPs, post them. heheheh.

4 8 15 16 23 42

Ah, shit. Someone fell asleep at the keyboard and forgot to put in the code -eek-

i'm no server admin but couldn't you have the guys running the server to have their firewall block the hacker?

I'm not sure of the nature or what was involved in this attack but you would have to put the block in far enough "upstream" that you still had a decent bandwidth to allow stuff other than the junk traffic. For example if someone launches a DoS against your DSL connection and you put up the block on the "local" side of your DSL you still have all the traffic going over the DSL clogging it up before it is dropped by the local firewall/block.

This is a really bad attack. The attacker is requesting a file from thousands of spoofed IP addresses. We're working to figure out how to deal with it and are facing being blown off the net because of it. Until the person stops.

Man, is this one of them zombie attack? I had a few horror stories about those zombie computers.

Anyway, good luck for you guys. I hope the site will be back on normal soon.

I don't understand why someone would want to do something like that. Are they just evil? Do they even have something to gain? I hope they get caught and raped while in jail.

Yeah, really what is to gain by disabling a site such as this. The site isn't large enough that whoever is doing it will get some cred for doing something. Sorry Geoff tough break. Hope things get cleared up.

So far....looks like it is back up.

-p

Hope the asshole dies for doing this.....fucker! :mad:

Only way I can get into the forums is with the button at the top of the home page. The drag-down on the left just refreshes the home page, and all drag-downs within each forum take you BACK to the home page. I hereby petition the government to give all convicted hackers the death sentence.

EDIT: Never mind. The drag-down is working again. :)

nOw yOu hAvE bEeN gIvEn a SmAlL DeMoNsTrAtIoN oF mY pOwEr

vIcToRy Is MiNe!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

You should. get the do-hickey thing security from the IBM commercial, including the employee.

I noticed the front page won't link to the forum either...preventative measure?

= J

There has been talk recently of Middle Eastern hacker groups planning various attacks on European and American websites - I wonder if this was a test of some sort? I also wonder what other sites faced similar problems?

Hmmmmm.... Interesting that you didn't post in this thread until AFTER the threat has passed, and you immediately come in to lay down a smoke screen.

Your IP has been logged, sir! :grunt:

You are not supposed to let on that you work for the...
<--------high tech top secret encryption

:wtf:

I'm no rocket scientist... :shrug:

How did you finally stop them...or did the attacks stop?