Is the site under "attack"?

Is it me? or is the site experiencing it's first attack of 2016...

been slow to load and sometimes not load at all for about 10 minutes now...

Back up temp..

went to "is it down right now" and it confirmed...

a reply to: TNMockingbird

I've no problems, if anything it's as fast as it's ever been.

a reply to: TNMockingbird
I was just going to post a thread asking this. Nothing would load and there was a huge lag. I got worried for a minute there.

It was down for me for about 5-10 minutes. Got a confirmation from Is It Down or Just Me.

Everything is normal on my end. Maybe it's either your browser, internet connection, or maybe reset your computer.

yip i had the same problem but across the hole net maybe the recent cme we had

a reply to: TNMockingbird

I'm just got into ATS after trying a few times over the last 10 minutes.

It seems fine now...

I don't know...maybe was just "one of those things".
Is it Down?

Says it was last down 10 minutes ago so whatever it was it must have been corrected...

I always try to remember the newest thread right before something like this (whatever if anything "this" was) happens to see what may have spawned the attack (if there was one). I'm just odd that way!

a reply to: TNMockingbird
Fine here now too.

It must be we have had this on the BBC for 54 mins and no threads?.

www.bbc.co.uk...

OB's coming for yer guns!.

originally posted by: stonerwilliam
yip i had the same problem but across the hole net maybe the recent cme we had

That was my first guess as well.

a reply to: TNMockingbird
some part here state side are experiencing problems could be internet speeds a lot of people on line today. Already 2 am in EU.

It makes me wonder if Win10 is causing problems for people or older versions of windows who have the Win10 logo on their desktop bar. Win 7 won't update at all anymore and i'm bombarded with 'Upgrade to Win10 everytime i boot my OS.

a reply to: masqua

yip the net has been buggy for the last 30 -40 hrs but any time a cme hits this is always the case , but my phablet was working ok on 3g and ip viking shows pretty good

map.norsecorp.com...

There was about a 20 minute period where the net seemed to slow. FB and ATS and USGS all were really slow for me. I ended up rebooting to see if that was it, but it wasn't now all seems fine.

a reply to: stonerwilliam

What is a CME anyway?

I use a peer block program that blocks a few billion IP addresses from ever getting to my computer.

a reply to: ChesterJohn

A coronal mass ejection from the sun

wow i feel like phage now



www.abovetopsecret.com...

We've been experiencing near daily attacks for about six days. For the most part, our DDoS mitigation service has done well, and there has been no effect on the site. There's no corresponding attack for this recent brief outage in the attack logs, but those can be delayed by up to two hours... so we'll see.

There are several broad attacks happening across the Internet. The hosting service, Linode, has been the primary target.

a reply to: SkepticOverlord

I wish they'd leave this site alone. I don't know what they hope to accomplish, other than being ass hats. If they're trying to be ass hats they're succeeding.

a reply to: SkepticOverlord

Thank you.

In Linode's status statement, from one of their engineers, it appears that they are working diligently to protect themselves.

The complete technical explanation to come should be interesting...