HorsesAss.Org: "Denial of Service
by Goldy, 07/21/2008, 10:03 AM
As you may have noticed, HA started experiencing technical difficulties almost the minute I stepped onto the plane to Austin. If I was paranoid, I might have thought it was exquisitely timed.
It turns out we were being assaulted by waves of spam comments, overwhelming our database server from time to time, an attack that escalated some time early this morning to eventually take down the entire server… web, email, DB and all. According to my hosting company HA was being hit with hundreds of comments a second, from multiple, rolling IPs. So they removed the Wordpress file that handles comment posting, and everything seems to be functioning normally now.
That is, except for comments.
Right now, if you attempt to post a comment, you should be getting a blank screen. I’m working on a more elegant interim solution until we figure out a permanent one.
As for the motivation of the spammers, I can’t say whether it is political or not, but I’m not seeing similar reports of this happening at other Wordpress blogs, except for Darryl’s Hominid Views. Hmm.
UPDATE:
I’ve just flipped a switch requiring you to log in as a registered user in order to post a comment. Of course, there is no registration enabled yet, so it’s merely a cosmetic change that prevents you"
Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.
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