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by **Klaus Devestatorie** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:41 pm

Anumia wrote:I am suddenly reminded of the Commonwealth...

Fun fact- if the admins pay for premium Zetaboards, they can read all your PMs now as well!

Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:
Klaus Devestatorie wrote:Really is just a lot of DoS.

http://tachyondecay.net/php/bin/serverstatus.php - this tells you which servers are up and which ones are not. The attacker has not yet managed to bring down more than half of the ZB servers at once; it affects us a lot because a huge number of forums made in the last 18 months for NS are w11 forums (s11), and the forum that was originally being targeted by this DoSer is also w11.
Anyone have any idea what "board on w11" is being targeted to set this all off?

Nope, and there's no way they'd name it either, otherwise we'd all be in mutiny demanding to throw the cursed sailor off the ship.

by **Tancerlo** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:43 pm

Klaus Devestatorie wrote:
Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:Anyone have any idea what "board on w11" is being targeted to set this all off?
Nope, and there's no way they'd name it either, otherwise we'd all be in mutiny demanding to throw the cursed sailor off the ship.

Exactly. In fact, I'd argue against throwing them overboard. I'm ok with a bit of downtime if it means this attacker doesn't get to win.

by **Cerillium** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:46 pm

Tancerlo wrote:Exactly. In fact, I'd argue against throwing them overboard. I'm ok with a bit of downtime if it means this attacker doesn't get to win.

That's really what it comes down to. Nothing would please the attacker more than people leaving.

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:13 pm

Whoa, just curious

by **The Risen Jaguar Warriors** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:26 pm

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Glen-Rhodes wrote:Self hosted will always be supreme, no matter what you Zetaboards apologists say. o/

Having your forums hosted by Jolt is clearly the superior way to go *nods*

Sure... If you like looking at ads for Viagra and whatnot...

by **Indian Empire** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:44 pm

Uh... oh

No wonder the Zetaboards for Neo Pacific Union are down... but how comes the ones for the region of Texas are completely fine? There using Zetaboards too!

by **Benevolent Thomas** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 1:30 pm

Indian Empire wrote:Uh... oh

No wonder the Zetaboards for Neo Pacific Union are down... but how comes the ones for the region of Texas are completely fine? There using Zetaboards too!

Texas uses InvisionFree IIRC. while operated by the same people, the same they are not.

by **Klaus Devestatorie** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:31 pm

A couple of the InvisionFree servers were hit, but no more than about 3 at once out of 14.

by **Funkadelia** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:23 pm

A few of the members of Taijitu were praising Eluvatar for keeping his site up for the past seven years earlier this week.

by **Mallorea and Riva** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:50 am

The Elugarchy strikes again

member · by **Eluvatar** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:54 am

Klaus Devestatorie wrote:
Anumia wrote:I am suddenly reminded of the Commonwealth...
Fun fact- if the admins pay for premium Zetaboards, they can read all your PMs now as well!

This is mostly true, but misleading.

If admins pay for premium Zetaboards, they get a switch to turn on PM logging. If they turn it on, then PMs sent while the switch is on will be readable (without being reported). However, this also adds a warning to the PM interface about this 'feature' being active.

(That said, a malicious admin could use javascript on any forum which allows admins to add javascript to do any number of nasty, nasty things. Most of them would obviously violate ToS

).

Funkadelia wrote:A few of the members of Taijitu were praising Eluvatar for keeping his site up for the past seven years earlier this week.

If they were they were wrong. Taijitu's site went down in April 2010 and lost 2 years of data, which was my fault entirely. It's been up for 4 and a half years since.

by **Hobbesistan** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:24 am

Mallorea and Riva wrote:The Elugarchy strikes again

So much win in 'Elugarchy'

I motion this to vote.

by **Zaolat** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 3:53 am

Eluvatar wrote:
Klaus Devestatorie wrote:Fun fact- if the admins pay for premium Zetaboards, they can read all your PMs now as well!

This is mostly true, but misleading.

If admins pay for premium Zetaboards, they get a switch to turn on PM logging. If they turn it on, then PMs sent while the switch is on will be readable (without being reported). However, this also adds a warning to the PM interface about this 'feature' being active.

(That said, a malicious admin could use javascript on any forum which allows admins to add javascript to do any number of nasty, nasty things. Most of them would obviously violate ToS ).

Also with it turned on, any member of the forum can manually turn off logged PMs for their account I believe.

by **Aeyariss** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:02 am

Hobbesistan wrote:I now will swivel my brandy with my monocle while reciting "I told you so.", for the privately hosted forums look upon thee using zeta with laughter.

Serious: Any idea what's causing the downtime outside of 'a lot of DoS'?

Hmm, what's wrong with it?

by **Ainocra** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 10:17 pm

I've always preferred to host my own forums when they are needed.

by **RiderSyl** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:02 pm

I'm sure to the chagrin of everyone everywhere, as a TBR member I haven't noticed this with our ZB forums at all. At least these tech problems are sparing the right people, amirite?

by **Jufonce** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 4:44 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Glen-Rhodes wrote:Self hosted will always be supreme, no matter what you Zetaboards apologists say. o/

Having your forums hosted by Jolt is clearly the superior way to go *nods*

Totally.

by **The Risen Jaguar Warriors** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:46 am

@Hobbes any updates yet...?

by **Railana** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:04 am

Glen-Rhodes wrote:Also, uptime would be great if a community was willing to fork over a measly $5/mo for a Digital Ocean account. Hell, there are free hosts with 99.99% uptime. x10 just sucks, but due to the politics of moving hosts, TSP is stuck with it.

GR, you're still a student, right? GitHub is giving students a free $100 DigitalOcean credit.

by **Hobbesistan** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:46 pm

The Risen Jaguar Warriors wrote:@Hobbes any updates yet...?

Wait, what?

by **Klaus Devestatorie** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:08 pm

The only relevant update is that all the downtime is gone and everything is back to business as usual for ZB users. This has been the case for some time.

by **Hobbesistan** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:51 pm

Klaus Devestatorie wrote:The only relevant update is that all the downtime is gone and everything is back to business as usual for ZB users. This has been the case for some time.

^mhm

by **Glen-Rhodes** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:17 pm

Railana wrote:
Glen-Rhodes wrote:Also, uptime would be great if a community was willing to fork over a measly $5/mo for a Digital Ocean account. Hell, there are free hosts with 99.99% uptime. x10 just sucks, but due to the politics of moving hosts, TSP is stuck with it.

GR, you're still a student, right? GitHub is giving students a free $100 DigitalOcean credit.

Oh, I got that when it first started. Moving forums in a GCR is such a political hassle itself, it's impossible to convince the worriers to actually use a non-free option, because they're afraid of somebody *owning* the forums.

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