premiso Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Apparently "Anonymous" has successfully implemented a DDoS attack on GoDaddy today bringing down all of their hosted websites due to GoDaddy's support of SOPA / PIPA in the past. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57509744-501465/godaddy-goes-down-anonymous-claims-responsibility/ Hope you are not hosted by GoDaddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shlumph Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Must be pretty distributed to bring a friggen hosting company down. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Must be pretty distributed to bring a friggen hosting company down. LOL. They have DOS attacks down to a science: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/high-orbits-and-slowlorises-understanding-the-anonymous-attack-tools/ Given their distributed nature, popularity, and the existence of such script-kiddie friendly tools, they have an army of teens/young adults who are just itching to troll on a global scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Kevin, your tweets make me giggle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 I wonder if PHPFreaks is hosted on GoDaddy, seems to be going down often today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Must be pretty distributed to bring a friggen hosting company down. LOL. As shitty is their infrastructure is and as much as they overload their boxes, it wouldn't take much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Kevin, your tweets make me giggle Not that I have anything against Danica Patrick's chest.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 As shitty is their infrastructure is and as much as they overload their boxes, it wouldn't take much. Fair point. I'm surprised it took this long tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Andddddd they are claiming it was a "corruption of router data tables". Riiight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 Andddddd they are claiming it was a "corruption of router data tables". Riiight. Read higher up: the company?s interim CEO, said in a blog post and statement that service was restored about 4 p.m. Monday and resulted from a corruption of some router cables. Corruption of some router cables lulz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Mmm, I'm going to call typo. Or stupidity. Wait, stupidity sounds about right for GoDaddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkuar Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 my site was down for 2-3hours, (only the dns didn't work, ip did..) no big deal, but im moving away from godaddy, screw them. SOPA is stupid and they are even more stupid for voting for it ! Everyone needs to leave them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzman1 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 my site was down for 2-3hours, (only the dns didn't work, ip did..) no big deal, but im moving away from godaddy, screw them. SOPA is stupid and they are even more stupid for voting for it ! Everyone needs to leave them I had the same problem yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 SOPA is stupid and they are even more stupid for voting for it ! That is probably the least of your concerns if you host with GoDaddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall of Famer Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Well there must be a reason why it was Godaddy instead of HostGator and other hosting companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahngiel Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Well there must be a reason why it was Godaddy instead of HostGator and other hosting companies. Do you actually read things before you post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall of Famer Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Well there must be a reason why it was Godaddy instead of HostGator and other hosting companies. Do you actually read things before you post? Of course I do, and apparently you failed to realize what I was actually talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManiacDan Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I believe it was incompetence rather than an attack. I've worked for a hosting company before, and one drowsy sysadmin is capable of bringing the whole datacenter offline. A misconfigured network simply doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floridaflatlander Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I believe it was incompetence rather than an attack. I've worked for a hosting company before, and one drowsy sysadmin is capable of bringing the whole datacenter offline. Interesting, I wonder if someone needs to start looking for a new job. Either way it's going to cost gdaddy some customers. It brought sopa to light for those who didn't know gdaddy's stance on this issue and it also brought other gdaddy performance issues to light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManiacDan Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I believe it was incompetence rather than an attack. I've worked for a hosting company before, and one drowsy sysadmin is capable of bringing the whole datacenter offline. Interesting, I wonder if someone needs to start looking for a new job. Either way it's going to cost gdaddy some customers. It brought sopa to light for those who didn't know gdaddy's stance on this issue and it also brought other gdaddy performance issues to light. Firing the sysadmin depends on the severity of the error. I once typed > instead of >> in a cronjob and we lost about $4,000,000. We had another guy make a router route to itself (he thought he was logged in to the one in the other room) and that took down a whole datacenter for a few minutes. Sometimes shit happens. It probably wasn't malicious, like the press release said, I bet they had a typo in the routing table. Remember when Google went down for an hour because someone had disallowed their entire database with a typo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I believe it was incompetence rather than an attack. I've worked for a hosting company before, and one drowsy sysadmin is capable of bringing the whole datacenter offline. Interesting, I wonder if someone needs to start looking for a new job. Either way it's going to cost gdaddy some customers. It brought sopa to light for those who didn't know gdaddy's stance on this issue and it also brought other gdaddy performance issues to light. Firing the sysadmin depends on the severity of the error. I once typed > instead of >> in a cronjob and we lost about $4,000,000. We had another guy make a router route to itself (he thought he was logged in to the one in the other room) and that took down a whole datacenter for a few minutes. Sometimes shit happens. It probably wasn't malicious, like the press release said, I bet they had a typo in the routing table. Remember when Google went down for an hour because someone had disallowed their entire database with a typo? I am not, nor have I ever been, a sysadmin, but I can't see a small typo taking entire datacenters offline for a whole day. Maybe a few minutes until you go, "oh shit, what have I done?!" and fix it. But a day? Why would it take that long? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManiacDan Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 If they typo'd DNS A records and then they propagated out before the fix went through, you have to wait for the fix to propagate as well. A typo in a cli command could also delete something important (including an entire server) and it could take a day to get that restored from backup. Another fun typo from my past: cd /usr/local/apache/web3 sudo chmod -R 744 / That took out an entire server permanently, it had to be wiped and restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 cd /usr/local/apache/web3 sudo chmod -R 744 / That took out an entire server permanently, it had to be wiped and restored. LOL. *NIX needs a, "are you sure you want to execute this command that is about to pwn your server?" confirmation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 Another fun typo from my past: cd /usr/local/apache/web3 sudo chmod -R 744 / That took out an entire server permanently, it had to be wiped and restored. That is why I tend to use dots more often than slashes after I cd to a directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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