Astronautix Taken Offline due to DDOS Attack
Astronautix Taken Offline due to DDOS Attack
http://www.astronautix.com/
Due to a persistent denial of service attack, astronautix.com has been taken off line.
Thank you for your support over the last 17 years. I'll have to consider in what altered media, form, or other hosting arrangement the content of this site may reappear in the future.
Per aspera ad astra
Due to a persistent denial of service attack, astronautix.com has been taken off line.
Thank you for your support over the last 17 years. I'll have to consider in what altered media, form, or other hosting arrangement the content of this site may reappear in the future.
Per aspera ad astra
Vae Victis
Exactly! Just shows how stupid and moronic these people are that conduct such nonsense! I wished they would rather put their talents to good use and do DOSA on those websites that promote themselves via the tons of spam on the web, mainly online pharmazies and online casinos.This is absolutely crazy nonsense. Who in the world could have interests in DDOSing astronautix.com?
But who can understand what is going on in the mind of a guy who DOSes astronautix...
Just unbelieveable!
Find a host with ping protection, an IDS running, and if you have the money get round-robin cluster hosting which divides your page views among a few servers instead of just one. EX: If you get 100 views a minute across 5 servers, that means every server is handling 20 requests per minute. When a DDoS attack occurs the attack is spread across several servers instead of 1 server that will be saturated by requests.
Just some thoughts...
Just some thoughts...
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and please do report it. USG makes a lot more arrests for this sort of thing than you'd guess.
http://www.cybercrime.gov/
http://www.cybercrime.gov/
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
While this does help, it usually isn't enough unless the attack is of very low volume.ScottL wrote:Find a host with ping protection, an IDS running, and if you have the money get round-robin cluster hosting which divides your page views among a few servers instead of just one. EX: If you get 100 views a minute across 5 servers, that means every server is handling 20 requests per minute. When a DDoS attack occurs the attack is spread across several servers instead of 1 server that will be saturated by requests.
Just some thoughts...
Most of the time the problem isn't with the server being able to fulfill all of the malicious requests, but the fact that all of the malicious traffic has saturated at least the server's network connection, if not the host's (depending on the size of the attack). I've seen DDOSes range from ~100Mbps (barely enough to take down a typical server network connection) to 5Gbps+ (more than enough to bring a smaller hosting provider down until the traffic is null-routed by the hosting provider's access providers (the big names in the Internet)).
Either way, its rediculous that someone would target that kind of website. I also recommend reporting it, or having the hosting provider report it (if they haven't already).
The original version, not updated since Oct 2001, but still live
http://www.friends-partners.org/partner ... aceflt.htm
Or, the wayback machine has a snapshot from October of 2010:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http:/ ... nautix.com
Details of the attack would be useful if Mark Wade can spare the time to provide them. Actual DDOS or just an accidental DOS?
Had an accidental DOS once... a government archive had put up a pdf on the relationship between the Soviet missile design bureau and the Soviet manned space program but the archive interface had been privatized and was a proprietary corporate clusterfuck.
People running a variety of OS's couldn't get at the file so I tossed a copy on a small file drop I hosted to the few people I knew would be interested... and then spent the next couple of days wondering why LLNL had launched a DOS attack on my file drop
http://www.friends-partners.org/partner ... aceflt.htm
Or, the wayback machine has a snapshot from October of 2010:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http:/ ... nautix.com
Details of the attack would be useful if Mark Wade can spare the time to provide them. Actual DDOS or just an accidental DOS?
Had an accidental DOS once... a government archive had put up a pdf on the relationship between the Soviet missile design bureau and the Soviet manned space program but the archive interface had been privatized and was a proprietary corporate clusterfuck.
People running a variety of OS's couldn't get at the file so I tossed a copy on a small file drop I hosted to the few people I knew would be interested... and then spent the next couple of days wondering why LLNL had launched a DOS attack on my file drop
ya if someone say, at slashdot did an article on some space topic and linked to an astronautix image, that would DDOS the site.
On the other hand, spammers are doing DDOS a lot to try to compromise SQL databases and test for various sql injection methods, as a means of posting spam links to their sites once they figure out a working injection method.
On the other hand, spammers are doing DDOS a lot to try to compromise SQL databases and test for various sql injection methods, as a means of posting spam links to their sites once they figure out a working injection method.