Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum
Bass Fishing => Bass Fishing Tips, Techniques & General Discussion => Topic started by: djkimmel on April 07, 2020, 06:26:53 PM
Apparently sometime near 5PM today (Tuesday, April 7, 2020) a new friend came along deciding it might be fun to drown my server in unauthorized access attempts. Though it was only 1 IP address (Thank goodness for that!!!!!) however this wonderful person did it, it started repeatedly crashing my entire MySQL, which means this forum and everything else that needs a database wasn't running or barely running. That includes email so I'm surprised I didn't get a bunch of phone calls from web clients?!?
In case someone was trying to use the forum and couldn't figure out what was going on?? Before 5:30 I had spotted the very large number of requests against one website. As soon as I blocked that one loser MySQL stabilized and my server loads went WAAAAAYY down! I've never actually seen a server load that high on this server!!! #$%!#$*! hackers!! grrrr
Sounds like an ion cannon attack.
I wish I HAD an ion cannon!!! And then, I knew where to aim it. I would... BLAM!!! One hacker gone... X more to go...