cracked Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 When I try to view my PMs, I get a bunch of code instead of my messages. Something about the mysterious gumnut blender. Is this happening to anyone else, too? Quote
chirp Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Whoa! We aint just talking gumnuts here... I got the gumnutblendersybians ...."that aint dirty is it John?" Quote
gapertimmy Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 I'm checking into it right now. We've had a flurry of emails from our hosting provider, there was a dDos attack a few days ago ( you may have noticed the downtime ) i'm not sure if its related yet. bluebird day today.... hmmmm go skiing or fix Private Messages?????? Quote
Terminal_Gravity Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Go skiing, I hear the trees are the best thing at Bachlor! Quote
gapertimmy Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Go skiing, I hear the trees are the best thing at Bachlor! hey TG, sorry we missed you the other week (would send you a pm but...) we stopped by on our way out of town but you weren't around, we'll be back though. gaper already did some skiin this morning. sunrise skin up the EXTREMO summit chair line, sweet turns on courdoroy love. Fantastic way to start the day! Quote
Squid Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Yeah, I'm really excited to see what the gumnut blender sybians are trying to tell me. Quote
sketchfest Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Hey timmy, were you involved in that body recovery over by TFJ? Quote
jon Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Hey folks, I've been working on trying to fix the PM problem this morning but it looks like we are screwed. I'm not sure if this is sign of more attacks from Al Qaeda, but basically our host's servers were compromised and the database server which hold all of the PMs (at last count around 50,000 of them) was hacked and all data was lost. Really sorry about this folks. ----------------------------------------------- Dear DreamHost Customer, As you are aware, earlier this week one of the websites we host was subject to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that caused our routers in the network operations center to severely malfunction, taking down all services for a good portion of a day. The past couple days we have been upgrading our current router hardware and adding another layer of redundancy to ensure we wouldn’t have this kind of problem again. Unfortunately one of the new network routers we installed had a major vulnerability in the linux kernel and allowed a hacker to compromise this system and gain access to most of the servers in our cluster. While most of our systems were unharmed two of our dual processor (DP) database servers, Jenna and Silvia, were compromised and all data was lost. Since these are redundant servers running a RAID level there was no tape backup for these servers. Since we encourage our customers to back up their databases locally, we hope that you have done so and are able to restore your data. We are very sorry for this inconvenience but unfortunately for reasons that we don’t fully understand we have become rather large targets for DDoS attacks and spamming, but please be assured we are talking all the precautions necessary to prevent this from happening again. Sincerely, The DreamHost Network Operations Team Quote
Thrashador Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 What does it take to back up databases locally? Quote
catbirdseat Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 I don't think that the expense of backing up PMs can be justified. Anything of high importance should be sent via e-mail. If you don't provide an e-mail address then it's just too bad. If you dont' want to get spammed create a special e-mail address for cc.com related e-mail. Use the format myname at provider dot com, or some other device to foil the spambots. Quote
snoboy Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 All those nasty PMs from grumpy cc'ers, gone for ever. April 1, hmmmmmmmmmm jon= " Jenna and Silvia, were compromised" Quote
AllYouCanEat Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Bummer. I had one from the late benman that I always got a kick out of. Quote
jon Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 What does it take to back up databases locally? It means backuping up a rather large database over the internet to my computer or to our account on another server. Quote
girlclimber Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 April 1, hmmmmmmmmmm The first posts were made last night around 11 PM though... Quote
jkrueger Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 If you set your preferences to be notified of PMs via email you can at least read incoming messages. Quote
JoshK Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Sad but I agree that we should be using email for anything we really care about. I dont think any additional costs would be justified. Oh, and yay for linux security! Apparently having about 2 million versions of the same OS out in existance ain't such a hot thing afterall. Quote
cracked Posted April 1, 2004 Author Posted April 1, 2004 Yeah, but if everybody were to use Linux, they'd spend more time and effort screwing with Linux systems. What we need now is a NEW PM FORUM. Quote
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