forum outage over?

[VirtualLarry]

I couldn't access the forum this afternoon, kept getting an error about invalid / unsupported compression format in Waterfox, and a connection error in IE. Other web sites like FW were fine.

 

[Elixer]

Guessing it was a database issue of some type.

 

[allisolm]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35087416&postcount=4

 

[Chaotic42]

Weird. I clicked a Dailytech link from the main page and got a warning about it being an unsafe site. I thought the two might have been connected.

 

[pcslookout]

I heard the Anandtech forums were hacked

 

[Soundmanred]

Google told me the Anandtech forums were hacked.

 

[ViRGE]

Google told me the Anandtech forums were hacked.

Where did you pull this from? This is the first I've heard of this (and I'm a mod, so we'd be the first to hear).

 

[Tsavo]

Forums are still down.

I can't post at all!

 

[Ryan Smith]

Where did you pull this from? This is the first I've heard of this (and I'm a mod, so we'd be the first to hear).

I'm afraid (or rather glad) that it wasn't anything nearly that nefarious or interesting. The problem was that the table vb_session somehow ended up being full, which of course prevented new sessions from being created and locking everyone out.

 

[Dude111]

I heard the Anandtech forums were hacked

I doubt it... 2 other VBB sites I am on had problems within the last week...... (I didnt know this one did also)


Im glad its corrected!

 

[Red Squirrel]

This was the error:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT IGNORE INTO vb_session
(sessionhash, userid, host, idhash, lastactivity, location, styleid, languageid, loggedin, inforum, inthread, incalendar, badlocation, useragent, bypass, profileupdate)
**removed**

MySQL Error : The table 'vb_session' is full
Error Number : 1114
Request Date : Saturday, June 1st 2013 @ 04:26:54 PM
Error Date : Saturday, June 1st 2013 @ 04:26:54 PM
Script : http://forums.anandtech.com/
Referrer :
IP Address : *****
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database_MySQLi

Either that was just a side effect of another problem, or the problem itself.