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lj_refugees2011-07-26 12:44 pm
foxfirefey) wrote in lj_refugees2011-07-26 12:44 pm
Comments you want to leave on LJ but cannot!
I wish LJ the best in fixing their problem, but in the meantime I can read but am having trouble commenting SO. In the interests of fun and frippery I am making this post and if anybody else is having the same problem, you too can make the comments that you wanted to make to somebody on LJ but can't!
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This mysterious shit you do not know about, like Amazon and Pandora and eMusic, can be accessed in your underwear from the comfort of your own home if you have an intarwubs connection that can download at a decent pace.
Pandora is even free and you can put in stuff that isn't shit and it will try to figure out more not shit to recommend to you, unless you are this person in which case it will fail.
If you do not have a decent intarwubs connection, then that can suck sometimes and you have my sympathies.
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Did anyone else think "Geisterdamen!" when they read this?
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Aaaand I've forgotten what comments I wanted to make but I've attempted to make informative contributions to ontd_political and to friends' LJs.
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Laurie
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Maybe it's another DDoS attack? O_o
All it says on LJ's status page is:
No mention of the root cause of the problems, as yet...
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Surprisingly, I'm not going into withdrawal as much as I thought I would.
Laurie
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We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you!
Laurie
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LJ's status page has since been updated to say that yes, this is due to a massive DDoS attack that is taking out their backbone servers.
It's a minor miracle that anyone can even get the login screen to display correctly at the present time... O_o
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That said, it's Wednesday here, I still can't get on to LJ and I haven't had access since Sunday (and it was intermittent that day).
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I wonder what the incentive is for such a massive DDoS attack to be mounted on LJ? By all accounts it's not just taking out LJ but virtually all access to all of the servers belonging to the hosting company LJ uses; I've seen flood rates of 8GBps being bandied about, which is just frightening. Someone, somewhere really doesn't want LJ to be up and running. At all.
Apparently standard protocol is not to acknowledge DDoS attacks so as not to give exposure to those doing them until mitigation protocols are in place. Of course, at this point it looks like they need to totally rethink their mitigation protocols given how ineffective they are... ><
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I could be wrong, I've not googled, just got home from work, but this kind of tactic is cowardly and wrong, and I won't be complaining about LJ not stopping it, because it is an attack, and you don't kick a victim.
Laurie
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Yep, that's been the general understanding. Really makes you wonder what they're trying to avoid communication on in Russia.
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You'd think Robert Maxwell has better things to spend his money on right now... like a decent legal defence fund, perchance? ;p
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When LJ was created I don't think they really planned on LJ being a political target anyway though, lol, so maybe they could have done something.
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I can't even log in right now. :|
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If LJ is a house and all the traffic it deals with on a daily basis is like cars driving down the street then a typical day sees maybe forty cars an hour (numbers totally made up for illustrative purposes) drive down the street. In a DDoS attack somebody convinces lots of other drivers to drive down the street so LJ might see two or three hundred cars drive down the street. The DDoS last April was more like seven or eight hundred cars all trying to crowd down that street.
From what I've heard and read, this DDoS right now is more like eight thousand cars all trying to drive down LJ's street all at once. It's so many cars, in fact, that they are causing traffic jams so far away from LJ that other websites are getting shut down.
Better security (better locks on LJ's house) won't improve things because nobody is trying to break in to the servers. Better servers (bigger streets) can only improve things so much because the scale of the attack is so huge it's affecting other companies who would also have to improve their streets.
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IIRC, there was a lot of debate about that when the last DDoS attack occurred and I'm sure it's happening all over again, but it's all just speculation; your guess is as good as mine, possibly better as I've no knowledge at all about the current socio-political make-up of Russia. There doesn't seem to be any will on the part of the relevant judicial authorities to investigate this fully and find out who or what is behind these DDoS attacks.
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