THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Welcome => Hi, I'm New => Topic started by: SethDeAlba on 24 Mar 2013, 21:39

Title: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: SethDeAlba on 24 Mar 2013, 21:39
Sooooo... yeah.... I believe I'm new to this whole forum thingy.... So... be kind? yeah, I think that's what I want to say.....
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: celticgeek on 24 Mar 2013, 21:45
Mae pawb sydd yn newydd i'r fforwm hwn yn croesawu yma. 

Welcome!
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: Kugai on 24 Mar 2013, 21:51
Welcome aboard the Board  :)
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: SethDeAlba on 24 Mar 2013, 21:53
Thank you, diolch yn fawr (if the internet didn't lie that should be thank you in welsh, since celticgeek spoke in welsh) :D
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: jwhouk on 24 Mar 2013, 22:12
Boy, you came around at the right (?) time.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: SethDeAlba on 24 Mar 2013, 22:12
Quote from: jwhouk on 24 Mar 2013, 22:12
Boy, you came around at the right (?) time.
How so?
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: jwhouk on 24 Mar 2013, 22:16
Well, just try connecting to the comic. DDOS in progress.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: SethDeAlba on 24 Mar 2013, 22:22
Quote from: jwhouk link=topic=28808.msg1140975#msg 140975 date=1364188607
Well, just try connecting to the comic. DDOS in progress.
That would explain why I couldn't read the comic today..... Which is coincidentally why I joined this forum..... Either way it sucks that that happened, I don't understand why anyone would do that in the first place..... :x
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: Redball on 24 Mar 2013, 22:56
Jeph has put it up on his Tumblr (http://jephjacques.com).
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: Pilchard123 on 25 Mar 2013, 01:10
At the risk of making myself more suspicious, I would like to say that the culprit is NOT me. Although I am wondering how the forums were accessible when the main site wasn't.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: pwhodges on 25 Mar 2013, 01:23
Something clever in the routing, I suppose; they didn't change the IP addresses to be different as I speculated (or at least they put them back now it's over).
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: Bluesummers on 25 Mar 2013, 18:04
Fooft. Damn DDOS. Anyways, welcome, new person, and enjoy the fruits of Jeph's loins.


Labors. I meant labors....yeah. :psyduck:
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: pwhodges on 26 Mar 2013, 12:38
That was just a practice for the longer DDOS today.  The server manager has done something different today to try to defuse the attack (which I understand has not ended, though it is much reduced).  The reason that the forum came back before the comic yesterday was a configuration issue; this has been sorted so that today they came back together.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: jwhouk on 26 Mar 2013, 15:24
...AND IT STILL SUCKS.

Sorry, old hockey fan chant thing.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: bhtooefr on 27 Mar 2013, 10:46
On the topic of DDoSes as of late: http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/21967/biggest-ddos-attack-history-slows-internet-breaks-record-300-gbps
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: pwhodges on 27 Mar 2013, 11:33
In that article note that CloudFlare describe how they absorb such a DDOS - this is the facility the free version of which is now also in front of QC.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: Bluesummers on 27 Mar 2013, 18:09
Quote from: bhtooefr on 27 Mar 2013, 10:46
On the topic of DDoSes as of late: http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/21967/biggest-ddos-attack-history-slows-internet-breaks-record-300-gbps

Lol, that was on the front page of NY Times this morning.
Title: Re: Hello, I think I am new here.....
Post by: Kugai on 28 Mar 2013, 14:26
Hello there  :)