Pavilion Downtime

[Valkysas]

Yesterday, the pavilion was offline almost all day to nearly everyone in the world. we had some ideas of why, but we ended up being wrong, so I wont get into those ideas. we were the victim of a massive DOS (denial of service) attack. someone out there just didnt want the pavilion to be functional during E3.

which means it will probably happen again.

[Valkysas]

Re: Pavilion Downtime

oh yes, because of this, all the stuff we had planned to happen on the 18th is getting pushed to this weekend. priorities, you know. its possible we were attacked yesterday because the 18th was to be a special day.

[jvrlopez]

Re: Pavilion Downtime

And there I was telling Riotsword that he couldn't access the Pav possibly due to spyware

It worked for me all the times I accessed the Pav yesterday though.

[Valkysas]

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which is odd, because the main server that was taken out is in texas.

[jvrlopez]

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That is odd. If I recall, I accessed the pav around 4 Central and around 1 am this morning.

I guess the downtime explains the minute level of postings and replies I noticed yesterday.

[RPGD]

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Aw, nuts. Pretty annoying.

Since I'm one of the few non-American Pavilion members, I was unaffected by this, which lead me to end up beign the apparent "E3 updater". Well, that and whimsy. About all of the games I made topics for are games I like.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Pavilion Downtime

My brother has long theorized that the world would end after the premiere of the third Star Wars prequel. When I got home, and couldn't access the Pavilion, I almost believed it meself.

[IRC]

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what is a massive denial of service attack?

[Vonwert]

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I guess it happen late, since I was on there around 7 or so. Eastern time.

[Valkysas]

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basically, someone opened up so many connections to the pavilion that it used up it's bandwidth in a few hours and shut down.

[John Mora]

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Why would someone do something so hateful?

[Big Rick Cook]

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Well, Valk is out to get people.

[Magus]

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Who could've done this?

[obi-wan]

[DK]

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Who could've done this?

[Leon S. Kennedy]

[Riotsword]

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[Rush Limbaugh]

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[Diabolik]