Tales of the Parodyverse - Such is the price for refusing my rule. Yield, or suffer fu

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Subj: Such is the price for refusing my rule. Yield, or suffer further at the wrath of THE MODERATOR!
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 10:05:13 am EST

Reply Subj: Server connection issues (UPDATED!)
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 09:23:33 am EST (Viewed 411 times)

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> If you noticed, at times the board has been loading slowly or not at all. There's a very simple reason for this: A Distributed Denial of Service attack.
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> Yesterday there was another attempted break-in at the server. When that break-in was stopped, it seems someone out there decided that if they can't break in it was time to take down this server; so since then, an army of zombie PC's have been bombarding this server with garbage requests in an effort to make it inaccessible.
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> But that's not the strangest part. The target of those attacks is this very site, the Parodyverse Message Board - apparently we've offended someone out there. This attack also affects Comicboards, Snarkbait, etc.
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> At the moment the server support people are working to stop it. If they fail I still have one trick up my sleeve - I own several other domains which aren't being attacked, and I can move the PVB to one of them in a matter of minutes (not counting the time notifying everyone of the move).
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