chinaSMACK under DoS attack ::
:: below is a screenshot of the tell-all Chinese Internet tabloid blog chinaSMACK.com’s homepage at the time of writing. Hacked? Blocked? Your thoughts? From the : “chinaSMACK cannot be access right now. Denial of Service (DoS) attack since this afternoon. Do not know why. Cannot stop it. Only wait / hope.” H/T Joel. // AjS
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May 31st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Think they should install some Anti DDoS scripts.
Or additional apache modules to stop that. I’ll speak to Fauna…
May 31st, 2009 at 4:33 pm
It’s only the home page that shows this. The rest of the site is accessible. So I don’t think it is a DOS attack. Don’t know what it is though.
May 31st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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May 31st, 2009 at 7:43 pm
The jiong page is just a regular index.html page (which makes it easy to load compared to a regular WordPress PHP generated page) and yes, it is theoretically possible to get to another page of the website by entering the URL directly. However, whether it opens, fully loads, and whether you can then navigate to any other pages is pure luck, by virtue of getting a bit of bandwidth that hasn’t been sucked up by the DoS.
May 31st, 2009 at 7:57 pm
@ Liuzhou Laowai and @ Kai, thanks for your responses. I have been unable to access any pages on chinaSMACK. I guess we’ll need to wait for 小杜 to save the day.
// AjS
June 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Mr. Shock Horror, more a matter of waiting for Ms. Fauna to get back to me. She usually replies to me in the evenings, so will see what she writes back tonight.
// XD
September 25th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Yeah, I read something about the “chinaSMACK under DoS attack”… funny