lj_maintenance: Network issues

Lisa Phillips (

lisa) wrote in

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@ 2006-05-02 23:44:00

Network issues
Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for LiveJournal, Typepad, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org, movabletype.com as well as status.livejournal.org. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.

Currently access and availability to our sites has improved. We continue to work closely with our Internet access providers and will monitor the situation through the night.

We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.

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	bearzimages 2006-05-03 06:55 am UTC (link)
	This seems to be across the entire net tonight. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	brotherskeeper1 2006-05-03 07:10 am UTC (link)
	I have a lj friend in Italy who e-mailed me that he couldn't access LJ. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	candiedheart 2006-05-03 06:56 am UTC (link)
	I was wondering why it was being all slow. (Reply to this)

	oshawa 2006-05-03 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Argh. Them jerks. (Reply to this)

	nishikawa_kun 2006-05-03 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for the update. (Reply to this)

	trancegeminii 2006-05-03 06:57 am UTC (link)
	thanks for workin hard guys! we all appreiciate it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ladykate1980 2006-05-04 04:35 am UTC (link)
	I second that! Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	comradecharlie 2006-05-03 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Except Livejournal Status couldn't be accessed either... (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	alwaysavingme 2006-05-03 06:59 am UTC (link)
	I noticed that too. Because I tried accessing Livejournal Status. It didn't work. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	burr86 2006-05-03 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Thanks, Lisa! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	constancelight 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	I so love this icon! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	palmer_kun 2006-05-03 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Livejournal Status was down/blocked the whole time LiveJournal itself was, which actually rendered it completely useless... and your statement to check it for updates not that useful. I was under the impression that it was hosted off the network so that it wouldn't be affected by things that take down LJ itself. Guess I was wrong. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	crucially 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	It is hosted of another network, nothing stops an attacker from making it unavailable just like the main site though. It is mainly if we suffer any non attack problems. We are going to make sure that the status page is more resilient in the future. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	torakiyoshi 2006-05-03 06:59 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for the note. I knew it was something catastrophic earlier today when even the status page was broken! Have the best -=TK (Reply to this)

	zonereyrie 2006-05-03 06:59 am UTC (link)
	Bastards. I figured it was DDoS when I saw the behavior on the different SixApart sites tonight. Good luck! (Reply to this)

	lakeguy 2006-05-03 07:13 am UTC (link)
	not when they attack status.livejournal.org too (Reply to this) (Parent)

	constancelight 2006-05-03 07:00 am UTC (link)
	Ah, that explains it. (Reply to this)

	alwaysavingme 2006-05-03 07:00 am UTC (link)
	I'm happy to see y'all made a post. I had to ask what was up. Thanks. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xphoenixrising 2006-05-03 10:31 am UTC (link)
	random: OMG DEAN! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	etherpunk 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	I figured something was up earlier when I was having problems getting to the site. Kudos to all you guys for your hard work. (Reply to this)

	francita 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	Ah, thanks for the explanation. Keep up the good work! (Reply to this)

	aleksey3 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	Хэлло фром РАША! :) (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

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	febb 2006-05-03 07:52 am UTC (link)
	Здравствуй, здравствуй, хрен мордастый :))) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	pennyfeather 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	I even noticed that LJ Status was down for a bit... or maybe my computer sucks. Who knows? Nonetheless, thanks for the heads up and the hard work. I thought I was going crazy! :) (Reply to this)

	kingbowser123 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	I noticed something going on. I couldn't get any form of response from the site whatsoever. This site is at least accessible now so I am satisfied ;-). Cheers, -- Tom. (Reply to this)

	el_mentiroso 2006-05-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
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	ianiceboy 2006-05-03 07:56 am UTC (link)
	"Pitys" as in the Oread nymph from Greek mythology? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	ccnuggie 2006-05-03 07:02 am UTC (link)
	Find the bastards that did it and string them up by their nuts! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	harleyquinn03 2006-05-31 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	That;s asuming that it's a guy. Guys suck, so a Girl probably did it. :) Power to the chicks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	prevailing 2006-05-03 07:03 am UTC (link)
	By now, everybody knows that the Status page wasn't working either - so there's no use in me rehashing that again, but.. Good luck & thanks for the info! (Reply to this)

	john1082 2006-05-03 07:03 am UTC (link)
	Go get these bastards (Reply to this)

	ilidannax 2006-05-03 07:03 am UTC (link)
	Ну хоть не последний... (Reply to this) (Thread)