please read: why the site is slow.

[arcab4]

hi guys,

hopefully you're the lucky ones and aren't getting blocked from the site. just in case you're wondering why the site is REALLY slow and how come you're getting all those server errors..is that my hosting company is currently battling the code:red virus. here's what they say..

"While none of our web servers have been infected with Code Red, the worm continues to scan our 100,000+ IPs addresses for vulnerable servers. While this is going on servers are being bombarded with port 80 requests by the worm in an attempt to penetrate the server. This is causing the CPU loads to skyrocket and legitimate http requests to go unanswered. We have every admin working on blocking the offended IP addresses which now number over 150,000 attacking machines. While we anticipate this to last throughout the night, we will keep everyone informed should things change. To watch the Code Red attacks and infection, please visit http://www.caida.org/dynamic/analysis/security/code-red/index.html

We have already taken the maximum security preventative measures to ensure that all servers are protected from the Code Red Virus. We are maintaining Code Red monitoring 24/7 to ensure that all customers/clients are not affected.


Code Red F.A.Q

Q: Why am I able to browse other web sites but not my own site?
A: Code Red attacks servers by opening up malicous connections to port 80 in an attempt to undermine the server and penetrate it to install the worm. When it begins to attack servers with large numbers of IPs (256 - shared servers) it opens port 80 connections to all IPs on the shared server at the same time. All of these open connections and simulatenous hits causing the servers CPU load to spike, its memory to fill up and the server will begin ignoring legitimate requests and/or lock up entirely due to memory and segment faults. If your server was hosted on a dedicated server, because dedicated boxes have very few IPs, Code Red cannot cause as much harm to them.

Q: Why can I retrieve email, FTP and use telnet during this time?
A: Code Red only attacks port 80 on the server. You should be able to FTP, Telnet and retrieve email even during intermittent HTTP outages. If you cannot, the memory on your server or the CPU load is so high the server is completely faulting do to the load."

hopefully they'll have it fixed soon.

johnny

[kitten]

I was just about to post that question...

I keep getting this:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@myfishtank.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

It takes me around 5 times just to get into the board!

[dork187]

its really too bad this kind of worm has to attack all sites and not just huge corporate ones
i am sad to see that myfishtank has to bear the brunt of some hackers attempt at greatness
<sigh>

man that really sucks, hopefully they'll get everything taken care of ASAP. its better today than it was yesterday, i got in, but it was really slow today. yesterday i couldnt even attempt to get in.

[ryanp15]

I couldn't post for a while. It's really slow but they will get it fixed soon I'm sure. Oh well. Why must hackers do this? Is it to get attention? If so then why don't we know who they are? Or is it because they feel that because they suffer everyone else must too? I just don't understand life somtimes *sighs* oh well.

ok guys, its moving ok for me now...how about you if you even can get in here...lol

[fishboy]

Yes, like dork said Why can't they just get the really big sites ??? Ohwell,



Yes kitten i got that same thing when i went to try to get on the web


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Stupid hackers  >



      OHWEll

[dattack]

Sorry couldn't post in the Carbo Plus thread whoever started it.  From limited experience from other newsgroup member, it appears that the Carbo Plus has mixed reviews.  Certain people have claimed to have disposed of it because it didn't affect the CO2 levels as much and others speak highly of it.  It does seem nice to have a block of Carbon producing CO2 and seems like less of a hassle comparing it to pressurized CO2.  I saw a LFS store used this in their tank and it appears that the plants were bubbling and thriving.
However, the cost for maintaining the system is going to be quite expensive given that the Carbon blocks are pretty expensive and needs to be replaced every few months.  Also, I think you need a high KH because it claims to lower KH?? which could be detrimental to pH swings.  Replacement for pressurized CO2 is only like 12-20 bucks a year and the pressurized CO2 does work.
But if you have the money to play with this nice gadget, I would say go for it and tell us about your experience.

[JWright]

"Why can't they just go after the big sites?"

Huh?

First off, it would be much harder to selectivly aim for "big" sites. But more importantly, why should they? Is this site more important than any other, especially bigger, sites? I would argue that sites like cnn.com provide more towards the greater good of the community. But cnn.com should be targeted simply because it's bigger?

Re: why people do this (BTW, the people who created this worm weren't hackers, "hacker" is an often mis-used term, look it up)? Simply because they can. Why did Sir Edmund Hilary climb Mt. Everest? Why did Lewis and Clark go west? I'm not comparing the actions of these people, but the motivation is the same.

Josh

[dork187]

why the big sites?
because they have the massive amounts bandwidth to handle a few dos attacks
and what is this greater good you speak of?
the greater good of making money?
thats why they are in existance, not to create an  informed society.
and yes
i did misuse the term "hackers" i only use it in a general sense that the most people recognize
the people that create worms and virii like code red and sircam are  "code artists", they dont paint, they dont sculpt, they write the best and trickiest code they can
but im not sure if the comparison to sir edmond hilary is entirely approriate
is writing code the same as climbing a mountain? the creator(s) of code red are not putting life and limb at risk hiking in sub zero temps to do what no one has ever done before, they are just testing their abilities to exploit dumb terminals.
dont wanna start a flame...
just wanna add my 2 cents