View Full Version : www02 still slow
xusbewop
5-15-04, 09:01 PM
web2 is fine now, there are a number of places that won't be able to access www02 temporarily. namely, parts of roger cable, shaw cable, and some of asia. Please make sure to keep your computers virus free that's what does this every time...
www02 is loading now but it is still very slow. About 10-20 seconds to load http://www02.powweb.com/. When will this be fixed?
forum.powweb.com is loading just fine so it's not my connection
tbonekkt
5-15-04, 09:04 PM
Loaded under three seconds for me.
erockguide
5-15-04, 09:05 PM
I'm on www02, and my page won't load at all.
GoodWord
5-15-04, 09:06 PM
I'm in the same boat here. I can't get my domain to load, or if it will it's very slow.... www.silkrose.net :mad:
tbonekkt
5-15-04, 09:07 PM
I'm in the same boat here. I can't get my domain to load, or if it will it's very slow.... www.silkrose.net :mad:
Loaded for me in <1 second. Is it still not loading for you?
GoodWord
5-15-04, 09:08 PM
Seems better for the moment :)
rnorth6920
5-15-04, 09:34 PM
its going really slow for me....even saying cannot find server some times
edit: now its not coming up at all.
2nd edit 8:37pm: crusing now :)
My site has been down for 5 hours and still no luck
tbonekkt
5-17-04, 09:31 AM
My site has been down for 5 hours and still no luck
*rubbing crystal ball* your domain is....?
;)
*rubbing crystal ball* your domain is....?
;)
ooops... http://www.mcsteentan.com.au/
hyper,
Your site seems to be up and running now, at least it loaded for me.
Blazester
5-17-04, 12:49 PM
My experience shows that depending on your location www02 may or may not be reachable. For example I cannot ping www02 from my home computer, but I can from some of my other servers. I tried both www02.powweb.com and 66.152.98.12 (thinking it may be a DNS caching problem) with the same results.
Blazester
5-17-04, 01:08 PM
Oh I just re-read the notice. It seems they blocked certain ISPs from accessing www02. I'm on verizon in CA and am getting blocked. I suspect a large percentage of users are also getting blocked based on my traffic logs. Surely there has to be a better way to block viruses?
Oh I just re-read the notice. It seems they blocked certain ISPs from accessing www02. I'm on verizon in CA and am getting blocked. I suspect a large percentage of users are also getting blocked based on my traffic logs. Surely there has to be a better way to block viruses?
well that explains things a lot better than the admin post in the outages forum! My site has been down 16 hours now & support has not responded to my emails (as yet) Pretty damn frustrating!! :mad: I understand that these things happen from time to time but I cant stand not knowing whats going on
alphadesk
5-17-04, 08:36 PM
http://www.mcsteentan.com.au/
hyper ...
If it is this site it loads like a bullet now and has been. Iv'e checked it several times in the past day or so.
If it is another site please give us the url.
Blazester
5-17-04, 10:24 PM
http://www.mcsteentan.com.au/
hyper ...
If it is this site it loads like a bullet now and has been. Iv'e checked it several times in the past day or so.
If it is another site please give us the url.
It may load for you but it is not necessarily loading for others. I cannot access http://www.mcsteentan.com.au/ nor any other site on www02.
Blazester
5-17-04, 11:57 PM
As an update I can now access www02 so it looks like from my end the problem has been fixed. How about you hyper?
yep loads now. Can anyone offer some info as to what happened? I received this from support We were experiencing some problems with the web server which would of caused your site to be down. Everything has been resolved now so you should be able to access it now.
which tells me nothing that I hadn't worked out myself.
no ones site has been down for 16 hours. It may have seemed like that to you but the vast majority of the internet could see your site. the course of action is pretty clear when given the two options when this type of thing happens:
1. have the whole webserver down for the entire internet
2. have your site unviewable to a tiny portion of the internet.
like i mentioned in my post which i posted right when i put the filters in place there were certain areas which wouldn't be able to view the site. if you were one of them that means the DoS on web2 was coming from your supernet (looks like your from an APNIC block like i specifically mentioned in the post). just imagine how frustrating it was for all the web2 customers who's site was really down before those filters were put in place or how frustrating it is for us having to deal with these constant attacks from asia/pacific. Let me reiterate something else i mentioned previously, if people would keep their computers virus free it wouldn't be happening. usually a virus is triggered on a number of host machines to attack a specific website. as a rule of thumb, 90% of the time the host machines are in asia and canada. don't ask me why, that's just how it is and has been for as long as i've been doing this.
looks like my reference to virii in the outage posting missed a few folks. i explained it in more detail below. no, there's not really a better way of dealing with it (outside of peeps keeping their machines clean to boot). when you get DoSed you filter the source ip's. i'm not sure i understand why the anger would be directed at powweb. we're trying to keep your site up for as much of the internet as possible while a bunch of people apparently have nothing better to do in china, taiwan, and canada, then DoS websites all day long. we don't ask for it, we don't want to spend hours filtering thousands of ip's while being blamed at the same time for an outage we didn't cause... doesn't make much sense...The internet is an unsafe place, i don't care where you are or have it hosted, if someone wants a site down its gone as are whoever else is on that server; period. especially when you have so many people who get loaded up with spyware and virii and serve as host machines for a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack.
unfortunately for the AU; you guys are on the same blocks as china and taiwan and all the other asian countries who's universities source just about every attack. Not a good place to be. i saw someone from verizon dsl posting on here as well, that was the only US one that hit web2 that day (friday or saturday think).
thanks Sgeine for explaining it. I found the post in the outage forum a bit vague web2 is fine now, there are a number of places that won't be able to access www02 temporarily. namely, parts of roger cable, shaw cable, and some of asia. Please make sure to keep your computers virus free that's what does this every time... and the reply I got from support had less info than that.
I understand that these problems occur but i was frustrated at the fact that www02 being down "temorarily" gave me no indication as to how long the site would be down for. Its frustrating enough having the site down but not knowing why and how long it will last for makes it worse. Your explaination has cleared up many questions though.... again, thank you.
Your post stated that no ones sites was down for 16 hours.... as far as Im concerned mine was. Remember whilst the "vast majority" could see the site, this was the minority for me being in Oz.... majority of my visitors come from Oz.
ohhh.. and I do keep my computer virus free. :)
ohhh.. and I do keep my computer virus free. :)I would expect most on here to have up-to-date anti-virus and even firewall protection. Unfortunately it appears that the majority of web-connected computers aren't so lucky. This leaves the rest of us to suffer the consquences when Denial of Service attacks are planned and executed.
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