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“Alas” has pissed someone off

Posted by Ampersand | December 4th, 2004

There was a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on “Alas” this morning, which put “Alas” offline for a little while. Some folks are just jerks, I guess.

Server owner Eric, who generously donates “Alas” space to live on, repelled the attack, and has posted some technical details on Wampum.

(Update: Changed “dedicated” to “distributed.” Thanks Eric!)

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10 Responses to ““Alas” has pissed someone off”

  1. Eric Writes:
    December 4th, 2004 at 11:42 am

    distributed (100+ attack nodes), not dedicated, though it was persistent.

    its a conundrum.

    still interested in alternatives to mt?

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  2. morrigan25 Writes:
    December 4th, 2004 at 12:15 pm

    I was wondering what happened, eek!

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  3. Ampersand Writes:
    December 4th, 2004 at 3:20 pm

    Eric -

    Would changing from MT to Word Press solve this problem?

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  4. Julian Elson Writes:
    December 5th, 2004 at 10:29 pm

    I don’t feel like it’s right to say “my condolences” because that makes it sound like your dad just died or something, rather than your server being down for a while, but I can’t think of how to say anything better so… uh… my condolences.

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  5. Trish Wilson Writes:
    December 6th, 2004 at 4:43 am

    Wow, Barry. I’m glad you’re back up. Some people really are jerks.

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  6. Sheelzebub Writes:
    December 6th, 2004 at 6:23 am

    If you’re pissing off someone that much, you know you’re doing something right.

    I’m glad you’re back up, and I hope the spineless poopyheads find loads of nasty viruses in their computers. Assmonkeys.

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  7. acm Writes:
    December 6th, 2004 at 8:16 am

    yeah, I’m with Sheelzebub.
    keep up the good work!
    :)

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  8. Ampersand Writes:
    December 6th, 2004 at 11:52 am

    testing

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  9. Catherine Redfern Writes:
    December 6th, 2004 at 2:29 pm

    Glad you’re back! Was confused too… :-)

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  10. eddireva Writes:
    December 8th, 2004 at 12:37 pm

    I found some interesting about subj, look at it. http://www.eddiereva.com

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