FR is under a multi-day DOS attack.

[Gravitycollapse]

Let us all play our tiny violins for them.

[TexasTowelie]

1. I haz a sad.

[greyl]

2. Source?

If it's only JR, ignore it.

And holy shit they're dim over there.

[Gravitycollapse]

3. It's only JR. But I have noticed a severe slowdown on the site.

Cannot verify it's an actual DOS attack but something is wrong.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Here you go! Just checked the source:

Sorry about the continued lousy response time, but FR is still under a DOS attack

Posted on 7/30/2017, 1:09:09 AM by Jim Robinson

Wanted to avoid running a thread on this, but seeing as how it continues dragging on, guess I'd better. The DOS attacker obviously knows by now that he's hurting us.

Have no idea when he/they started the attack, but we discovered it a few days ago. And John has been fighting it ever since. Says it's like whack-a-mole. Every time John gets him blocked or knocked out, he pops up again with a new modified attack. John thought he had a good solution a couple days ago, and we did enjoy one night and most of the next day with good response time, but then the guy popped up again with a fresh attack.

Don't mind telling you that John is getting very frustrated over this. In fact, the last time we discussed it tonight, he finally told me he could do better if I'd just get off the phone and let him work.

Praying John gets him permanently blocked soon and then we can get back to the more mundane hardware and systems problems that have been plaguing us lately.

And I'm sorry about being sorry. Again. Seems like every month and every week a new problem. But we're stubborn and we're not going to quit. We've managed to solve lots of problems over the last twenty years and we'll solve these too. Eventually. Praying not too many of our participants quit either. We absolutely can't get a long without you.

Hang in there everyone, we'll get this behind us soon.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3573105/posts

[mercuryblues]

8. poor John

John has been fighting it ever since. Says it's like whack-a-mole. Every time John gets him blocked or knocked out, he pops up again with a new modified attack.

Sounds like he is blocking the IPs 1 by 1.

[JHB]

9. They have to make sure they only hit moles and no hamsters...

...so they don't wreck their very foundations.

[mercuryblues]

10. Hahaah

This is a DUzy, if I ever saw one.

[jberryhill]

18. .

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Is John their version of Elad?

If so, I feel doubly sorry for him working there!

[Iggo]

21. Lol...John.

Last I heard, nobody could find his phone number.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. Did someone over at the Freeper-Stan Caravanserai make a faux-pas?

Did they say rude things about Vladimir Putin? Sing God Save The Czar off-key? Denounce the Russian Orthodox Church's use of icons as idolatry? Forgot to follow up with demanding the return of Russian America to Holy Mother Russia? Forgot to wave the right kind of Red White and Blue (And no, I'm not talking about Old Glory here)?

Tsk, Tsk.

[Vinca]

6. Sad. :(

[Le Gaucher]

7. They can practice their steve bannon maneuver.

[ryan_cats]

11. Must be time

Must be time for a fundraiser.

[Stuart G]

12. FR....Is that Free Republic???? the right wing web site??

Not clear...sorry ..don't get all the abbreviations

[Archae]

13. I was just there, no trouble seen.

Maybe they corrected the problem.

Of course the biggest problem there is RimJob, with his insistence on keeping such a hopelessly outdated and unworkable format.

[lastlib]

14. Who ever met a conservative that DIDN'T want to....

...keep a hopelessly outdated and unworkable format??

It's the nature of the beast.

Besides, RimJob is very attached to his Atari 800XL..............

[HipChick]

16. Inside job so they can raise more money?

[haele]

17. Am attack or a system crash?

According to recent reporting, there IT guy took an unannounced haitus a month or two ago, and if there's no one to maintain the servers, who knows what sorts of Trojans or script kiddy virii they may be running through their system.

Haele

[lpbk2713]

19. The highly skilled Freepville brain trust is working on it.

The problem shold be resolved in no time. Their 1990 BBS should be back to normal soon.

[Demonaut]

20. his 56k modem is not plugged in fully