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: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 30 2016, @04:47PM
-- Winston Churchill
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @05:10PM
For some reason, I thought of pop divas that nobody's thought of for awhile (e.g. Janet Jackson), suddenly hitting the top of the Yahoo news crawl for an embarrassing "wardrobe malfunction".
(Score: 3, Funny) by archfeld on Sunday October 30 2016, @05:53PM
I blame you Ethanol, not sure why, but it just seems fitting. What have you been doing lately that would cause this ?
Did you push some old lady into traffic :) But then again maybe it was me, The NSA is investigating me regarding keyword postings and have decided this is a terrorist supporting hub...
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 30 2016, @06:22PM
If its not something Buzzard posted, then it was probably my comment about Hillary arming terrorists with Stinger missiles. It may have even been a friendly doing it as a joke.
(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:23PM
Nah, it was me challenging the IOT source claims in the popular press. All 278 Alexa users decided to sic her on Soylent.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.