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?

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
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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

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.

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

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.