Lisa Phillips ([info]lisa) wrote in [info]lj_maintenance,

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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[info]bearzimages

May 3 2006, 06:55:55 UTC 6 years ago

This seems to be across the entire net tonight.

[info]brotherskeeper1

May 3 2006, 07:10:59 UTC 6 years ago

I have a lj friend in Italy who e-mailed me that he couldn't access LJ.

[info]codydhu

6 years ago

[info]candiedheart

May 3 2006, 06:56:55 UTC 6 years ago

I was wondering why it was being all slow.

[info]oshawa

May 3 2006, 06:56:57 UTC 6 years ago

Argh. Them jerks.

[info]nishikawa_kun

May 3 2006, 06:56:57 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for the update.

[info]trancegeminii

May 3 2006, 06:57:12 UTC 6 years ago

thanks for workin hard guys! we all appreiciate it.

[info]ladykate1980

May 4 2006, 04:35:17 UTC 6 years ago

I second that! Thank you.

[info]comradecharlie

May 3 2006, 06:57:18 UTC 6 years ago

Except Livejournal Status couldn't be accessed either...

[info]thegrlwhowaited

May 3 2006, 06:59:47 UTC 6 years ago

I noticed that too. Because I tried accessing Livejournal Status. It didn't work.

[info]canela

6 years ago

[info]crucially

6 years ago

[info]crucially

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[info]vix

6 years ago

[info]nixtress

6 years ago

[info]burr86

May 3 2006, 06:57:25 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks, Lisa!

[info]constancelight

May 3 2006, 07:01:18 UTC 6 years ago

I so love this icon!

[info]ronebofh

6 years ago

[info]palmer_kun

May 3 2006, 06:57:50 UTC 6 years ago

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.

[info]crucially

May 3 2006, 07:01:39 UTC 6 years ago

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.

[info]palmer_kun

6 years ago

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6 years ago

[info]torakiyoshi

May 3 2006, 06:59:06 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for the note. I knew it was something catastrophic earlier today when even the status page was broken!

Have the best

-=TK

[info]zonereyrie

May 3 2006, 06:59:11 UTC 6 years ago

Bastards. I figured it was DDoS when I saw the behavior on the different SixApart sites tonight.

Good luck!

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[info]lakeguy

May 3 2006, 07:13:44 UTC 6 years ago

not when they attack status.livejournal.org too

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[info]constancelight

May 3 2006, 07:00:35 UTC 6 years ago

Ah, that explains it.

[info]thegrlwhowaited

May 3 2006, 07:00:56 UTC 6 years ago

I'm happy to see y'all made a post. I had to ask what was up. Thanks.

[info]xphoenixrising

May 3 2006, 10:31:50 UTC 6 years ago

*random*: OMG DEAN!

[info]etherpunk

May 3 2006, 07:01:04 UTC 6 years ago

I figured something was up earlier when I was having problems getting to the site.

Kudos to all you guys for your hard work.

[info]francita

May 3 2006, 07:01:19 UTC 6 years ago

Ah, thanks for the explanation. Keep up the good work!

[info]aleksey3

May 3 2006, 07:01:25 UTC 6 years ago

Хэлло фром РАША! :)

[info]febb

May 3 2006, 07:52:24 UTC 6 years ago

Здравствуй, здравствуй, хрен мордастый :)))

[info]ddrna

6 years ago

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6 years ago

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6 years ago

[info]pennyfeather

May 3 2006, 07:01:29 UTC 6 years ago

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! :)

[info]kingbowser123

May 3 2006, 07:01:40 UTC 6 years ago

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.

[info]el_mentiroso

May 3 2006, 07:01:59 UTC 6 years ago

[info]ianiceboy

May 3 2006, 07:56:04 UTC 6 years ago

"Pitys" as in the Oread nymph from Greek mythology?

[info]ccnuggie

May 3 2006, 07:02:37 UTC 6 years ago

Find the bastards that did it and string them up by their nuts!

[info]harleyquinn03

May 31 2006, 15:46:02 UTC 6 years ago

That;s asuming that it's a guy. Guys suck, so a Girl probably did it. :) Power to the chicks!

[info]prevailing

May 3 2006, 07:03:06 UTC 6 years ago

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!

[info]john1082

May 3 2006, 07:03:08 UTC 6 years ago

Go get these bastards

[info]ilidannax

May 3 2006, 07:03:19 UTC 6 years ago

Ну хоть не последний...

[info]kodasmom123

May 9 2006, 06:35:32 UTC 6 years ago

exactly

[info]maevebran

May 3 2006, 07:03:28 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for fixing the problem. Forgive my ignorance, but what is SixApart? (I'm new.)

[info]burr86

May 3 2006, 07:04:18 UTC 6 years ago

Six Apart is the company that owns LiveJournal. :D (http//www.sixapart.com)

[info]maevebran

6 years ago

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[info]myfavouritescar

May 3 2006, 07:05:05 UTC 6 years ago

ahh thanks for the update, i was wondering what was going on.

[info]brotherskeeper1

May 3 2006, 07:13:39 UTC 6 years ago

I hope you get it completely resolved soon. I know you all work hard to keep LJ up and running smooth.

[info]djgobul

6 years ago

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