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So, you know, there’s downtime and stuff. Come on, it’s Saturday night. Go bowling or something.

• Nope, it’s DNS problems. Gah. I hate DNS. #

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Not sure what’s going on, but I lost connectivity to the server. I’ve done a reboot request, which failed, so the NOC is investigating. Thanks for your patience, and I apologize for the downtime.

Nope, it was DNS issues. The Planet brought a new system on last night, and things are wonky with it. It’ll be a while before new data propogates, I reckon.

We had a power failure with the server about 0330 CDT this morning, but we were back online by 0415. I was safely in the arms of Morpheus and the mask of my CPAP for a sleep study, so I didn’t take the call … but all is well.

All:

We had an intruder log in via SSH from Eastern Europe yesterday on one of the accounts, for the express purpose of inserting some extraneous JavaScript at the end of every index.php file on that account. I feel quite confident that this account was the only one affected by the intruder, as this is the only record of that IP address on the server and I have seen no other unusual activity. That said, you are encouraged to change your cPanel/FTP passwords on a regular basis and to make them difficult to guess. cPanel now has a function that helps evaluate the strength of passwords, and I have a simple technique for generating difficult-to-guess passwords.

Thanks for your attention. Please email me if you have concerns.

The MySQL server is showing some flukiness, so I’ve restarted it. This should explain any errors you’ve seen in the last few minutes.

[177 days of uptime on the server. Impressive.]

I think the title is self-explanatory; nothing is demonstrably wrong with the box. Am investigating.

1729 CDT: The issue is limited to rocksmyfaceoff.net, not www.rocksmyfaceoff.net. Very strange.

1924 CDT: It has apparently re-resolved. :shrug:

Okay, so I thought that we were just getting mailbombed. [We were.] Turns out that Mark is testing out a different piece of forum software, and he’s been building a search index since last night. Makes so much more sense.

• We’re back online. Total downtime ~20 minutes. Better’n Twitter. #
• Wuhoh … time to run REPAIR TABLES on The Rumor Forum! Sonofa. #
• Okay, everybody back into the pool. And thanks to Smiley for getting the database tables repaired quickly. #

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A spammer is performing a botnet-based spamming attack on various non-existent addresses on rmfo-blogs.com right now, and that’s causing significant load on the server. It’s not thing that the server can’t handle, but it is working extra hard, and so other services may be slow. Because of the distributed nature of this mailbombing, there’s really no way to ban specific IP addresses and have that solve the problem for us.

Oddly enough, I’m not sure that there’s ever been a legitimate email address on rmfo-blogs.com.