Cpaptalk Web Site

[squid13]

I've been trying all day to get to this forum and just made it. Has anyone else had trouble bringing up the forum today? Edit: It looks like the last poet was at 10:14 and the next was at 4:07 so it looks like it was down for about 6 hours.

[djhall]

Yes, it was down all day for me too. It was almost certainly down for everyone since the error messages indicated the website couldn't connect with the database containing the user, thread, and post information.

[Wulfman...]

I've been trying all day to get to this forum and just made it. Has anyone else had trouble bringing up the forum today?

Yes, you weren't alone.........


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[JDS74]

Looks like the result of a denial of service attack.
The server was up and running but the board application was not responding.

[squid13]

Looks like the result of a denial of service attack.
The server was up and running but the board application was not responding.

Why would this happen to the forum unless someone has an axe to grind against the forum.

[chunkyfrog]

I also was unable to get in until just a bit ago.
Weekends are beginning to be a write-off.

[Sir NoddinOff]

Apparently some people have axes to grind with CPAPtalk, for example, the recent goofy attacks on CPAPtalk by the Poll Troll. It's the forum security administrator's job to make sure that doesn't happen. But stuff slips thru... hence the massive Target superstore attacks upon seventy million, supposedly secure, user accounts, Yes. that's a 70 with six zeros after it

[Islandwoman]

I could not get on with my desktop but could access by phone through the Taptalk app(I had just downloaded when it was mentioned in one of the posts) on my phone at !!:30AM Pacific. It seemed to have a few recent posts. Anyone else get it by app?

[ems]

Down until just now for me also.

[dinycat]

Down for me, too.

[zoocrewphoto]

Apparently some people have axes to grind with CPAPtalk, for example, the recent goofy attacks on CPAPtalk by the Poll Troll. It's the forum security administrator's job to make sure that doesn't happen. But stuff slips thru... hence the massive Target superstore attacks upon seventy million, supposedly secure, user accounts, Yes. that's a 70 with six zeros after it

Perhaps the angry person couldn't bring back any more polls so he decided to attack the forum some other way. It does seem to happen on the weekends. I wonder why somebody would be so angry with this forum.

[nanwilson]

I kept getting error messages too, I really hope it wasn't someone trying to do damage to this forum. Perhaps it was the website folks doing some upgrades?????????????

[breakfast]

Looks like the result of a denial of service attack.
The server was up and running but the board application was not responding.

Why would this happen to the forum unless someone has an axe to grind against the forum.

DDoS attacks are increasingly randomly launched. And depending on how the board is hosted, the attack may not have been targeted specifically at cpaptalk, but perhaps a neighboring board.

[carolyngoodman]

Howdy,

Sorry for the down time. Our IT department was doing some upgrades which took down the website while they were working.

In future, we will try and post before any scheduled upgrades.

Regards,
Carolyn

[Goofproof]

It forced us to play, more solitaire, and kill more birds. I didn't think it was a DSN attact, maybe against the pipeline host, not the site targeted. Jim