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Rickhansen
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again around 10:35 Wednesday (3/27) morning. Since the webserver presents this error as a webpage, I suspect disk access or SQL database as a root cause.
BigJim45
Luv'n Life
This could be the reason...............
Massive cyberattack hits Internet users
By By Doug Gross CNN
March 27, 2013 12:08 PM HST
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Internet users around the globe were facing slowed down service thanks to what's being called the biggest cyberattack in history.
The prolonged denial-of-service assault is targeting The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group that has gone after CyberBunker, a data-storage company that offers to host any content "except child porn and anything related to terrorism."
The organization has been in a long-running feud with CyberBunker and claims spammers use it as a host from which to spray junk mail across the Web.
Internet security firm CloudFlare said Spamhaus contacted it last week, saying it had been hit with an attack big enough to knock its site offline.
Security experts say the attack uses more sophisticated techniques than most DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks and targets the Web's infrastructure, which has led to other sites performing slowly.
"It's the biggest attack we've seen," Matthew Prince, CloudFlare's CEO, told CNN.
The Spamhaus Project is a nonprofit organization that patrols the Internet for spammers and publishes a list of Web servers those spammers use. According to Prince, the group may be responsible for up to 80% of all spam that gets blocked. This month, the group added CyberBunker to its blacklist.
"While we don't know who was behind this attack, Spamhaus has made plenty of enemies over the years," Prince wrote in a blog post. "Spammers aren't always the most lovable of individuals and Spamhaus has been threatened, sued, and DDoSed regularly."
In a DDoS attack, computers flood a website with requests, overwhelming its servers and causing it to crash or become inaccessible for many users.
One way to defend against those attacks, Prince said, is to deflect some of the traffic targeted at a single server onto a bunch of other servers at different locations. That's what happened in this case, and why Web users experienced some slowdowns on other sites.
He told CNN the last big wave of the attack hit Tuesday morning, but that he doesn't "live under the illusion" that there won't be more.
For their part, CyberBunker isn't taking credit for the attack. But the the Dutch company, housed in a former NATO nuclear bunker, isn't shying away, either.
"This here is the internet community puking out SpamHaus," CyberBunker founder Sven Olaf Kamphuis told CNN. "We've had it with the guys ... . What we see right here is the internet puking out a cancer."
He said the owners of various websites got together on a Skype chat and hatched the plans for the attack. He says that StopHaus, a group organized to support CyberBunker in the dispute, ceased the attack after three days but that other hackers and activists kept it up after that.
Kamphuis and other critics say that Spamhaus oversteps its bounds and has essentially destroyed innocent websites in its spam-fighting efforts.
"Spamhaus itself is a more urgent danger" than spam, Kamphuis told CNN. "Pointing at websites and saying they want it shut down and then they get it shut down without any court order. That is a significantly larger threat to internet and freedom of speech and net neutrality than anything else."
Vincent Hanna, a researcher with The Spamhaus Project, said the group's record speaks for itself. He said the project has existed for over 12 years and its data is used to protect more than 1.7 billion e-mail accounts worldwide.
"We have 1.7 billion people looking over our shoulders to make sure we do our job right," he said. "If we start blocking things they want, they won't use our data any more."
He emphasized that Spamhaus doesn't have the power to block e-mail from anyone -- they merely make their data available for service providers and other Web companies to use.
Hanna said Spamhaus experienced its first denial-of-service attack in 2003.
"This has been the biggest for us," he said, "but certainly not the first one."
Cloudflare's Prince said denying access to a website through cyberattacks is the truest assault on Web freedom.
"Our role is to allow the internet to achieve what it aspires to -- that anyone, anywhere can publish any piece of information and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere else in the world," he said. "It's blatant censorship.
"Whether Spamhaus is a good organization or a bad organization is irrelevant to me. We protect American financial institutions, which some people think are evil, and we protect WikiLeaks, which some people think are evil."
Massive cyberattack hits Internet users
By By Doug Gross CNN
March 27, 2013 12:08 PM HST
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William Armsby/CNN
(CNN) -
Internet users around the globe were facing slowed down service thanks to what's being called the biggest cyberattack in history.
The prolonged denial-of-service assault is targeting The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group that has gone after CyberBunker, a data-storage company that offers to host any content "except child porn and anything related to terrorism."
The organization has been in a long-running feud with CyberBunker and claims spammers use it as a host from which to spray junk mail across the Web.
Internet security firm CloudFlare said Spamhaus contacted it last week, saying it had been hit with an attack big enough to knock its site offline.
Security experts say the attack uses more sophisticated techniques than most DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks and targets the Web's infrastructure, which has led to other sites performing slowly.
"It's the biggest attack we've seen," Matthew Prince, CloudFlare's CEO, told CNN.
The Spamhaus Project is a nonprofit organization that patrols the Internet for spammers and publishes a list of Web servers those spammers use. According to Prince, the group may be responsible for up to 80% of all spam that gets blocked. This month, the group added CyberBunker to its blacklist.
"While we don't know who was behind this attack, Spamhaus has made plenty of enemies over the years," Prince wrote in a blog post. "Spammers aren't always the most lovable of individuals and Spamhaus has been threatened, sued, and DDoSed regularly."
In a DDoS attack, computers flood a website with requests, overwhelming its servers and causing it to crash or become inaccessible for many users.
One way to defend against those attacks, Prince said, is to deflect some of the traffic targeted at a single server onto a bunch of other servers at different locations. That's what happened in this case, and why Web users experienced some slowdowns on other sites.
He told CNN the last big wave of the attack hit Tuesday morning, but that he doesn't "live under the illusion" that there won't be more.
For their part, CyberBunker isn't taking credit for the attack. But the the Dutch company, housed in a former NATO nuclear bunker, isn't shying away, either.
"This here is the internet community puking out SpamHaus," CyberBunker founder Sven Olaf Kamphuis told CNN. "We've had it with the guys ... . What we see right here is the internet puking out a cancer."
He said the owners of various websites got together on a Skype chat and hatched the plans for the attack. He says that StopHaus, a group organized to support CyberBunker in the dispute, ceased the attack after three days but that other hackers and activists kept it up after that.
Kamphuis and other critics say that Spamhaus oversteps its bounds and has essentially destroyed innocent websites in its spam-fighting efforts.
"Spamhaus itself is a more urgent danger" than spam, Kamphuis told CNN. "Pointing at websites and saying they want it shut down and then they get it shut down without any court order. That is a significantly larger threat to internet and freedom of speech and net neutrality than anything else."
Vincent Hanna, a researcher with The Spamhaus Project, said the group's record speaks for itself. He said the project has existed for over 12 years and its data is used to protect more than 1.7 billion e-mail accounts worldwide.
"We have 1.7 billion people looking over our shoulders to make sure we do our job right," he said. "If we start blocking things they want, they won't use our data any more."
He emphasized that Spamhaus doesn't have the power to block e-mail from anyone -- they merely make their data available for service providers and other Web companies to use.
Hanna said Spamhaus experienced its first denial-of-service attack in 2003.
"This has been the biggest for us," he said, "but certainly not the first one."
Cloudflare's Prince said denying access to a website through cyberattacks is the truest assault on Web freedom.
"Our role is to allow the internet to achieve what it aspires to -- that anyone, anywhere can publish any piece of information and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere else in the world," he said. "It's blatant censorship.
"Whether Spamhaus is a good organization or a bad organization is irrelevant to me. We protect American financial institutions, which some people think are evil, and we protect WikiLeaks, which some people think are evil."
billyjoeraybob
South Carolina Chapter Leaders-Retired
Too funny... I just got the error trying to respond to the thread about the server being too busy!
Seriously though it has been a problem for me often over the last several days
Seriously though it has been a problem for me often over the last several days
jimtoo
Moderator
Problem with the forum?
Never fear LK is near
setting on his rear
programing to keep our dear
Heartlanders from shedding tears.
The Heartland forum
will persevere and we
shall overcome all our fears.
So .. take it easy and have a beer,
Never fear, LK is near.
GO HEARTLANDERS GO!!!
Never fear LK is near
setting on his rear
programing to keep our dear
Heartlanders from shedding tears.
The Heartland forum
will persevere and we
shall overcome all our fears.
So .. take it easy and have a beer,
Never fear, LK is near.
GO HEARTLANDERS GO!!!
Rickhansen
Well-known member
I saw this again today, Thursday 3/28, at 08:55 and it persisted for about 4 minutes. Hope this helps.
Flying Dutchman
Virginia Chapter Leaders - Retired
Problem with the forum?
Never fear LK is near
setting on his rear
programing to keep our dear
Heartlanders from shedding tears.
The Heartland forum
will persevere and we
shall overcome all our fears.
So .. take it easy and have a beer,
Never fear, LK is near.
GO HEARTLANDERS GO!!!
Love the jingle but please don't mingle
Server busy so I'm in a tizzy
Where is that beer, ... Oh dear
It's still morning here
Server Busy
I've been trying to do research, prior to making a decision whether to buy a Big Country. Anytime I attempt to view various posts I end up getting a busy server notice and to try later. Doesn't your server have enough capacity for the number of members?
Thanks.
I've been trying to do research, prior to making a decision whether to buy a Big Country. Anytime I attempt to view various posts I end up getting a busy server notice and to try later. Doesn't your server have enough capacity for the number of members?
Thanks.
Nabo
Southeast Region Director-Retired
Re: Server Busy
MikeR - yes there are problems with the server and the webmaster knows about it. They are working to try to isolate the problem but as for now haven't found a cure. As for the Big Country - we have had 2 BCs over the past 7 years loving each one. If you have any questions, please private message us and we will try to answer the best we can.
Byrd
MikeR - yes there are problems with the server and the webmaster knows about it. They are working to try to isolate the problem but as for now haven't found a cure. As for the Big Country - we have had 2 BCs over the past 7 years loving each one. If you have any questions, please private message us and we will try to answer the best we can.
Byrd
mobilcastle
Well-known member
Heartland Server Problems
Please get your servers up to speed or add some. I get the "try later response" more and more.
Thank you
Steve
Please get your servers up to speed or add some. I get the "try later response" more and more.
Thank you
Steve
FiremanBill
Well-known member
Re: Heartland Server Problems
It is getting very frustrating
It is getting very frustrating
TXBobcat
Fulltime
Re: Heartland Server Problems
I am still having a problem also. Says the server is busy... This forum is the first place I go to read and see what others are doing. It is disapointing that it is still having the same problem.
I am on a number of other forums and none of them are having a similar problem. Maybe we need to go to a service that has a better server.
Another thing that is happening, is that when I open an area to post the area that is opened is so large I have to page down to get to the submit button.....
BC
I am still having a problem also. Says the server is busy... This forum is the first place I go to read and see what others are doing. It is disapointing that it is still having the same problem.
I am on a number of other forums and none of them are having a similar problem. Maybe we need to go to a service that has a better server.
Another thing that is happening, is that when I open an area to post the area that is opened is so large I have to page down to get to the submit button.....
BC
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