Right, so there's currently a DDoS of our site specifically happening. Part of me is mildly annoyed, part of me is proud that we're worth DDoS-ing now. Since it's only slowing us down a bit and not actually shutting us down, I'm half tempted to just let them run their botnet time out. I suppose we should tweak the firewall a bit though. Sigh, I hate working on weekends.
Update: Okay, that appears to have mitigated it; the site's functional at a reasonable rate of responsiveness.
Update2: Attack's over for now. You may go about your business.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 30 2016, @11:00PM
Heh, right now I'm pretty certain I could knock us off the net entirely with as little as half a dozen hosts. But then I know exactly what hits the DB the hardest and there's a pull request fixing it sitting on github as we speak.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @11:28AM
Given your status as emergency reserve sysop, [soylentnews.org] I guess you could knock SN off the net using a single host — the one you'd use to log in and shut the servers down. ;-)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday November 01 2016, @02:34PM
Is my slow ass-user page getting fixed?
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 01 2016, @03:13PM
No idea, have to ask paulej72. I'm on hold until he gets whatever he wants done taken care of.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.