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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #45 on: April 12, 2012, 07:23:55 am »
We'll be possibly looking into a new server tomorrow. The issue appears to be on my hosts side (My VPS just randomly loses internet, the bandwidth graphs drop immediately to 0, yet the VPS appears to be running completely normally if I connect through the console login, asides from the lack of network connectivity). I've contacted him about the issue 3 times now and received nothing meaningful in response whatsoever (which for how much I'm paying for the VPS is completely pathetic.)

I moved part of what I have hosted on there (completely unrelated to Omnimaga, although I suspect it's what is getting DoS'd) over to Amazon's EC2 server earlier, and it seems to be a really nice and proper interface that may be a decent alternative.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #46 on: April 12, 2012, 09:44:51 am »
So you think it's not omni that is being ddosed?
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #47 on: April 12, 2012, 04:33:47 pm »
that makes more sense, i mean who wants to DDoS a cac website??
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #48 on: April 12, 2012, 04:42:36 pm »
Several people ;)

Anyway, I hope the problem goes away.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #49 on: April 12, 2012, 04:53:49 pm »
Quote from: aeTIos on April 12, 2012, 09:44:51 am
So you think it's not omni that is being ddosed?

No, I don't think it's Omni.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #50 on: April 12, 2012, 05:24:55 pm »
Yeah, keep in mind other websites unrelated to Omni but managed by Netham are hosted on the same server.

And yeah, Amazon EC2 sounds like a good idea to me.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #51 on: April 12, 2012, 05:26:32 pm »
Quote from: Juju on April 12, 2012, 05:24:55 pm
Yeah, keep in mind other websites unrelated to Omni but managed by Netham are hosted on the same server.

This. I have a half-dozen or so sites on there.

As far as the DoS goes, it shouldn't have been enough to bring down the server, but the host was crashing (as in, outside my guest OS), and dropping my networking until I rebooted.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #52 on: April 12, 2012, 07:53:09 pm »
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #53 on: April 13, 2012, 02:32:29 am »
If the DDoS attack targets Omnimaga in particular and was from someone that really hates us and intends to continue in long terms, do you think it's blockable or will Omni have to continue living at the mercy of those attacks? Also if every IP/hostnames used for the attack are proxies, does it makes it impossible to trace which people(s) initiated the attack? (although it could be a virus installed on people's computer that performs the attack without them noticing).

Also could an exploit in the new anti-spam be what allows those attacks to happen? It seemed strange that the attacks starts happening shortly after the speed throttling anti-spam (what also causes Omni to be unreachable in Chrome for many people) gets added.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #54 on: April 13, 2012, 02:37:22 am »
Quote from: Netham45 on April 12, 2012, 04:53:49 pm
Quote from: aeTIos on April 12, 2012, 09:44:51 am
So you think it's not omni that is being ddosed?

No, I don't think it's Omni.

Oh of course how could I forget, netham45.org was down too at the same time. Therefore it's not a targeted attack on Omni phew. I think the news article can be a bit misleading too then. Maybe we should add that several sites were down too?
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #55 on: April 13, 2012, 11:34:34 pm »
Is it related to BBaS/BMaC? Back in 2008-09 random people from Steam kept joining our IRC channel to rant at you for hacking or something in Team Fortress 2, and I recall this server is still used for that stuff.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #56 on: April 15, 2012, 02:00:57 am »
Quote from: Netham45 on April 12, 2012, 07:23:55 am
The issue appears to be on my hosts side (My VPS just randomly loses internet, the bandwidth graphs drop immediately to 0, yet the VPS appears to be running completely normally if I connect through the console login, asides from the lack of network connectivity). I've contacted him about the issue 3 times now and received nothing meaningful in response whatsoever (which for how much I'm paying for the VPS is completely pathetic.)


Also, that is totally purple, not blue.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #57 on: April 16, 2012, 10:55:39 am »
What kind of random comment is this O.o
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #58 on: April 16, 2012, 11:17:32 am »
Actually he has access to the site data since he's CalcGames admin and most likely helping manage Barrett's server (on which Netham45's VPS is hosted). The data above is Netham45's traffic during the DDoS attack.
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Re: DDoS attack leads to 16 hours of Omnimaga downtime
« Reply #59 on: April 16, 2012, 11:31:17 am »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 16, 2012, 11:17:32 am
The data above is Netham45's traffic during the DDoS attack.

The alleged attack. It is quite clear that there wasn't. This means that whatever problems he's having is local to his server configuration itself, and there is nothing we can do about it.
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