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Postby AUbicycles » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:38 pm
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:59 pm
Many MANY thanks for getting it up and running again.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby Nobody » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:24 pm
+1ColinOldnCranky wrote:It is a very much appreciated resource. And, so, very much missed when we can't get on.
Thanks Christopher.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby g-boaf » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:34 pm
+2Nobody wrote:+1ColinOldnCranky wrote:It is a very much appreciated resource. And, so, very much missed when we can't get on.
Thanks Christopher.
Thanks indeed.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby brumby33 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:37 pm
cheers
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby Tim » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:45 pm
I really missed it.
Thanks for the reboot.
I even resorted to checking out our nemesis forum. That other name thieving, Coke swilling, helmet-penalty loving, close-pass permissive bunch of laydowns.
The shame.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby Zippy7 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:19 pm
Missed it over the weekend!
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby Calvin27 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:53 pm
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby CKinnard » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:20 pm
Makes you wonder who'd bother DOSing a cycling forum?
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby g-boaf » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:38 pm
Maybe it's someone disaffected - paying off someone to do some sort of attack like that. It's not beyond imagination.CKinnard wrote:I'm surprised there's not greater national level defences against DOS's.....though my understanding of these things hasn't evolved in 12 years.
Makes you wonder who'd bother DOSing a cycling forum?
If it is international though, one defense would be planning your own attacks against the perpetrator states. That probably does happen already, although nothing much will ever be said about it.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby Cyclophiliac » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:39 pm
I do hope you're referring to the organisation that hosts that forum, rather than the people who use it. I think you'll find that the members of that forum are just normal cycling-loving people, just like the BNA forum members.Tim wrote:This forum is as near as I get to social media.
I really missed it.
Thanks for the reboot.
I even resorted to checking out our nemesis forum. That other name thieving, Coke swilling, helmet-penalty loving, close-pass permissive bunch of laydowns.
The shame.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby warthog1 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:44 pm
I'm sure he was.Cyclophiliac wrote:I do hope you're referring to the organisation that hosts that forum, rather than the people who use it. I think you'll find that the members of that forum are just normal cycling-loving people, just like the BNA forum members.Tim wrote:This forum is as near as I get to social media.
I really missed it.
Thanks for the reboot.
I even resorted to checking out our nemesis forum. That other name thieving, Coke swilling, helmet-penalty loving, close-pass permissive bunch of laydowns.
The shame.
Apt description too
Thanks for getting the forum going again Christopher
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby rodneycc » Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:00 pm
Glad to see the site back up and Hope you are feeling better (health comes first!).
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Postby 10speedsemiracer » Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:21 pm
Much appreciated, glad you're ok
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Postby AUbicycles » Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:30 am
While they claim to be good, what this did is to flood the site with so many requests... and when so many are coming through every second, it overloads the servers which can't recover and that escalates. As soon as the servers recover, the bots are there and continue to flood.
They scrape the web and provide scraped data (without cost) to anyone who wants it. In theory its a good thing for data analysts however I discovered the hard way that their bot is either poorly programmed or they operate it without any common courtesy for moderate crawling.
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby Calvin27 » Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:43 pm
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Re: BNA Downtime
Postby CKinnard » Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:01 pm
haha. was just on whirlpool this morning. my goto for tech issues.Calvin27 wrote:It was a tough few days with this and rotorburn going down. If Whirlpool went down, too I might actually have to get out and ride my bicycle!
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all sorted now.
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Postby foo on patrol » Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:48 pm
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Postby AUbicycles » Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:57 am
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Postby mikesbytes » Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:50 pm
Do you let them back in once they have confirmed the bug is fixed?AUbicycles wrote:Small update - I sent a short mail to the organisation who have the bot and they responded and it appears that they have now identified a bug... though the next step is to try and prevent other crawlers with this bug causing the same problems.
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