What happened to the forum yesterday?

[TAandy]

...still couldn't get through, then when I finally did this morning, had to install Macromedia activex control ????
Uploaded my final FaD results last night :beer:
Haven't checked yet, but can Boinc projects be sneaker-netted?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

It was a DoS attack and the upstream provider of the AT forums had to apply some heavy filtering, which also caused legit traffic to be denied --> no connection for good folks like us.

But it looks like it's over now.

And the best thing is, a mod said that they managed to trace all the IPs and stuff belonging to the DoS guys! :evil:

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
It was a DoS attack and the upstream provider of the AT forums had to apply some heavy filtering, which also caused legit traffic to be denied --> no connection for good folks like us.

But it looks like it's over now.

And the best thing is, a mod said that they managed to trace all the IPs and stuff belonging to the DoS guys! :evil:

Thanks Cow!! Good news

 

[Smoke]

Geesh ... and I figured it was me and did a "format c:"

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
And the best thing is, a mod said that they managed to trace all the IPs and stuff belonging to the DoS guys! :evil:

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by: TAandy
Haven't checked yet, but can Boinc projects be sneaker-netted?

I don't believe so but i bet Rattledagger would know.

 

[mrwizer]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
It was a DoS attack and the upstream provider of the AT forums had to apply some heavy filtering, which also caused legit traffic to be denied --> no connection for good folks like us.

But it looks like it's over now.

And the best thing is, a mod said that they managed to trace all the IPs and stuff belonging to the DoS guys! :evil:

Too bad that will probably not do them any good. Most of the people who do this are not stupid enough to actually use their own computers in the DoS attack.

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: mrwizer
Most of the people who do this are not stupid enough to actually use their own computers in the DoS attack.

We can always hope they were stupid enough though. If nothing else, it'll get rid of some of the problem kids.

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: TAandy
Haven't checked yet, but can Boinc projects be sneaker-netted?

BOINC generally needs either a direct or indirect through proxy-connection to internet.

There isn't any support for using one computer for upload/download and another for crunching, but something like this will maybe be added later...


Anyway, with the very long crunch-times of CPDN-models, it should be possible to connect once, download, suspend network-activity, crunch for 2+ months, and upload... Some reports also indicates it is possible in CPDN to download on one computer and move full BOINC-directory to another for the crunching...

In other projects it can fail for various reasons, and also due to short deadlines it's not very practical to try sneakernetting anything except CPDN...

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Rattledagger

Originally posted by: TAandy
Haven't checked yet, but can Boinc projects be sneaker-netted?

BOINC generally needs either a direct or indirect through proxy-connection to internet.

There isn't any support for using one computer for upload/download and another for crunching, but something like this will maybe be added later...


Anyway, with the very long crunch-times of CPDN-models, it should be possible to connect once, download, suspend network-activity, crunch for 2+ months, and upload... Some reports also indicates it is possible in CPDN to download on one computer and move full BOINC-directory to another for the crunching...

In other projects it can fail for various reasons, and also due to short deadlines it's not very practical to try sneakernetting anything except CPDN...

Thanks Rattle

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: Smoke
Geesh ... and I figured it was me and did a "format c:"

That the machine with your SQ on it, too?

 

[amdxborg]

lol@ Ronin

 

[petrusbroder]

That DDos attac must have been viscious. Well, I hope it is over for now . When does the next come?
Just at the same time I lost my router due to PS-burnout.

 

[TAandy]

Forum's getting hard to reach and very slow to load.
Are the buggers at it again? :|

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Same for me, only every third click actually works for me right now.

 

[Insidious]

Been trying to post fast so they don't get lost...

I think God is trying to shut me up............ GOOD LUCK WITH THAT

-Sid

 

[mondobyte]

Yep ... seems we need to put some script kiddies in jail

 

[SirUlli]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
It was a DoS attack and the upstream provider of the AT forums had to apply some heavy filtering, which also caused legit traffic to be denied --> no connection for good folks like us.

But it looks like it's over now.

And the best thing is, a mod said that they managed to trace all the IPs and stuff belonging to the DoS guys! :evil:

thanks for the Info, i post somethink at the BOINC Forums...

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=21961

hope all is going good now.

Sir Ulli