p2pnet DDoS attack?
p2pnet news – Earlier today p2pnet went offline for 10 minutes or so, as a couple of emails note.
It’s back online but as a reader says in a comment post, “I don’t know about other people but I’m finding page loading reeeeeeel slow. Is your old problem back again?”
But Nope. It’s nothing to do with that.
“Mysql is running at over 100 queries per second right now —- that’s probably 5-6 page views every second,” said Bob (who very generously tries to keep an eye on the tech end of things) when p2pnet went down.
Ottawa Gal wonders if it’s a Distributed Denial of Service.
For anyone who doesn’t know what what that is, DDoS attacks flood networks with so many requests that regular traffic is either seriously slowed down, or it stops altgether.
At this point in time, we don’t know what the cause of the problem is, but Bob is working on it.
For now, sorry for the page-load hang-ups.
Normal service will, as they say, be resumed as soon as possible. 
Cheers!
Jon
July 17th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
If this site ( and others like it ) made no difference, then there would be
no need for DDOS attacks.
Someone is clearly uspet about something.
Good.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Whenever an article gets written and posted here and on other websites recently about a particular controversial subject, the comment section literally explodes.
Strange coincidence that a dos attack might follow. These often seem to shadow troll wars.
Due to a bug in the site’s coding, once articles get pushed off the front page of p2pnet, they will spend about a week in digital Purgatory until they appear in “Previous Entries” page. Maybe the comment trolls, unable to find the articles again – and locked out of the Wikipedia page of the same subject – decided to do something else with their energy and determination?
Back in 2003-2004, there was an invasion of trolls that flooded several P2P forums for months promoting an unknown (and definitely unwanted) P2P application called Earth Station 5. The resulting forum flame wars quickly grew to many pages in size before being locked by frustrated moderators, only to be started up again. When more aggressive measures were finally taken by the site operators to combat the trolls/spammers, DoS attacks followed.
From an obscure buggy, P2P software to an unknown ‘musically-challenged’ singer — both rejects which raised ire among the P2P community — maybe history repeats itself?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
The above poster is posting some accurate facts but obscuring them with his own bullshit.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
” The above poster is posting some accurate facts but obscuring them with his own bullshit. ”
Instead of just slinging more bullshit, why don’t you point out exactly, point by point,
what is wrong with that posters statement ?
July 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
@ ..history_repeats
“Due to a bug in the site’s coding, once articles get pushed off the front page of p2pnet, they will spend about a week in digital Purgatory until they appear in “Previous Entries” page.”
I’d never noticed that. So thanks. We’ll try to rectify it.
Cheers!
July 17th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Wrong, the party is not on p2pnet.net, but rather here:
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lounge/1216003113/1-
July 17th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
http://emptv.com/view/indiana-gregg-master-of-the-internet
“Indiana Gregg, it seems nobody has told you this, but somebody must: You are not that important. Not even close.”
great analysis.
July 17th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
followup here:
http://emptv.com/view/indiana-gregg-ian-morrow-sockpuppets
“When your only weapons are lawsuits, everyone looks like a defendant.”
rmuser, The Banality of Gregg (2008)