Is it on my end, Forum running real slow and sometimes not at all?

JOE.G · July 15, 2012, 08:02:41 AM

Last night I tried to get on the forum and it was running real slow, and at first would not even load. I am just wondering if it is on my end or not, It is the same today maybe a touch faster. Thanks

Norm · July 15, 2012, 08:13:21 AM

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,59502.0.html

Jeff posted this on the general board about the problem.

thecfarm · July 15, 2012, 08:18:47 AM

Jeff will get the problem fixed. He never let us down yet. ;D

Jeff · July 15, 2012, 08:36:06 AM

Not much I can do with this one other than wait along with everyone else.

JOE.G · July 15, 2012, 11:02:26 AM

I was trying to surf the board to see if others were having the problem but it kept canceling out, I finally was able to post.

The Arbosit site is doing the same thing to me at the moment also.

Jeff · July 15, 2012, 11:25:10 AM

This seems to be a very wide network issue effecting thousands of websites.

Warbird · July 15, 2012, 01:30:41 PM

I've been seeing the same thing since early yesterday. The solution to the problem behind this lies in the hands of the upstream service providers. There is nothing Jeff or any of us can do at this point.

tyb525 · July 15, 2012, 02:16:13 PM

I have been having a problem for a couple months now, only on the forum. The page will quit loading like it is finished, but it won't actually load, blank screen. Refreshing usually loads it.

Jeff · July 15, 2012, 02:27:26 PM

Quote from: tyb525 on July 15, 2012, 02:16:13 PM
I have been having a problem for a couple months now, only on the forum. The page will quit loading like it is finished, but it won't actually load, blank screen. Refreshing usually loads it.

Unrelated. Probably a browser issue there.

WH_Conley · July 15, 2012, 06:41:17 PM

What is the motive behind these attacks? Is there a profit somewhere, or, is someones just doing this stuff for kicks?

Ianab · July 15, 2012, 07:31:33 PM

One can be a simply shakedown job.

Pay us $10,000 or your web page goes offline. If they then target the main router feeding that (and 1,000 other sites), no one can get though.

It's also possible that faulty router in the system can DOS itself, or the other routers it's connected to.

Ian

Warbird · July 15, 2012, 08:45:14 PM

There are also 'cyber-wars' conducted by foreign countries against our assets. Could just be 'hacker wars' too. An attack of this magnitude (see the other thread) is rare and leads me to believe the motives behind it are large.

sandhills · July 15, 2012, 11:16:52 PM

Thank you guys for all the work you do here, I also figured it was my computer..no something I did to my computer ;). they can hack me, they ain't gettin much! (just don't tell em I have a wife that makes a living for us!) :D