Attack of the DDoS

[Conan]

For the last two days in a row FA has experienced hours of downtime while a botnet DDoSes the site.

Of course, they fixed it (or at least think they fixed something) by throwing hardware at the problem and replacing their Cisco 7301 switch, and were promptly knocked offline again today. Dax apparently did the work and acquired the new router from his seemingly vast collection of random technology, and immediately took to Twitter where he demanded recognition (again).

And potentially the creepiest thing about this is Verisign contacting Dragoneer through Facebook (and email to try to sell him DDoS protection: http://www.thedragoneer.com/verisign_ddos.jpg. This has started some conspiracy theory that Verisign is DDoSing FA.

And that's today's FA report.

[magus]

Looking at those twitter links, it seems that, perhaps unsurprisingly, the retarded conspiracy theory idea seems to have actually gained traction. Sure, guys, a middling-to-big 'net infrastructure company is running a protection racket against a furry porn site. It couldn't be that they, you know, actually *do research* about botnet activity and figured it out from what their test lab machines are doing, oh no.  Verisign actually sell a decent product, though it's hideously expensive, and thus very far outside FA's realm of possibility.

Also, aren't FA supposed to be getting a sweetheart deal for bandwidth from their rack space provider? If they're pulling down decently-sized DDoS attacks on a regular basis, I can't imagine that arrangement will last long...

[Jim Demintia]

Dax apparently did the work and acquired the new router from his seemingly vast collection of random technology.

A real cynical bastard would wonder how much of that random hardware has come from the back room at his workplace. Last I knew he was working the overnight shift, so yeah.

[Conan]

FWIW it was knocked offline shortly again this morning. So was e621, Fchan, and apparently Freehaven's board earlier today. Interestingly enough, FA went down last and is already back, while Fchan and e621 remain offline (even with their gigabits of bandwidth and 24 cores).

[ColeTrain]

Yak....the person who should KNOW how FA works and what is the cause of the quirks that cause the site to malfunction.....apparently "doesn't know" what's causing the frequent outages that occur at this moment.
And who was it that kept forcing Neer not to get any more help from other people, but let him keep a deathgrip on FA?

FWIW it was knocked offline shortly again this morning. So was e621, Fchan, and apparently Freehaven's board earlier today. Interestingly enough, FA went down last and is already back, while Fchan and e621 remain offline (even with their gigabits of bandwidth and 24 cores).

If I recall well, same thing happened few months ago-all larger, or should I say more known furry websites were DDOS'd like crazy. Another "anti-furry crusade"?

[MazelTovCocktail]

Aaaaaaaaand it's down again.

What was it we were supposed to be thanking Dax for again?

[Pi]

From tumblr, I find:


For how emotionally invested in this goddamn thing he is, he doesn't seem to notice very often when it catches fire.

[Jim Demintia]

For how emotionally invested in this goddamn thing he is, he doesn't seem to notice very often when it catches fire.

With FA there's at least a pretense of selflessness. Not so when you're lost in a cellphone-ad-induced stupor and tweeting about it.

[ProvincialTwit]

He's just jealous because other companies have ads that actually make them money

[Conan]

So apparently they had a line card failure:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2678023/

So, first off, my apologies that the Terms of Service was not updated prior. I recognize that this was a failure on my part, and I apologize. We were doing some performance/review testing of Viglink, and unfortunately, we got knocked out by the various DDOS and a line card failure in our router this past weekend. Coupled with Irene, things got a little messy all around.

Which means one of the DDoSes probably wasn't a DDoS, unless the card failed during the DDoS, which would just be amazing.

[Freehaven]

Incompetence might also explain FA's current outage, but you never know.

[Conan]

Incompetence might also explain FA's current outage, but you never know.

So much for Cloudflare.

They're still using it according to tracert, so, uh, lol.

[Jim Demintia]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the fact that FA popping up and down like a state fair game is garnering more animosity from the furries than the Viglink flash-in-the-pan "scandal".

Coupled with Irene, things got a little messy all around.

And the Gawker password hacking incident was responsible for FAleaks.

[Conan]

We're looking into the current outage. We believe a line card on the router suffered failure.

Two weeks in a row?

[ProvincialTwit]

Of course this begs the question of why the hell they even have (or need) a router with a line card in it.

[loki]

Of course this begs the question of why the hell they even have (or need) a router with a line card in it.

I would say probably just to say they have it? I'd bet on that or them being incompetent and buying things that they don't need to spend money on..

Also, do they really use Cloudfare? You figure if Lulzsec can use it to minimize DDoS that they shouldn't have that hard of a time using it (unless they're that incompetent)