> 4chan is down because of DDoS attacks, stemming from a bunch of guys that are angry that moot doesn't want to move #4chan to lulznet.
-Kirtaner (of 420chan).
No real reasons to distrust this information, really. Let's hope it didn't hit 'em too hard. I must say, with the traffic that 4chan get, it must have been one fucking tidal wave of a DDOS.
This brings up a number of questions...
sux2b4chan
> re. "No real reasons to distrust this information": are you implying in some way that because Kirtaner said this, that he might be somehow involved?
No, not at all, it's just that he's 'friends' with moot (reportedly from before moot even started 4chan), that and the fact that Kirt has been correct about these sort of things before.
>>2
IRC fags are HARDCORE! That said, it still sounds like a pretty shitty reason.
I'd more likely believe a visit from the party van or other legal faggotry has gone down, or maybe the ads haven't worked out and it's back to DONATE OR DIE.
This is all /b/'s fault.
you cant blame /b/...
Poor 4chan. And this was the week that I had to take a leave of absence from there, too. It looks like a functional but RedCream-less week is just not in the cards for 4chan.
RedCream is a gigantic faggot.
Correct because he is the one that does that sort of shit.
Remember 4pron? Seriously, wtf is wrong with kirtaner?
It'd be one thing if they just brought down the server that /b/ is on, but all of them? That's some serious bullshit.
This thread is one of the top google searches for "What happened to 4chan".
I thought you guys might care.
Fuck this. I'm missing /a/.
Fuck all of 4chan, I just want some normalcy to return to iichan /b/... If I see "WHEN I WAS" one more time, I'm going to have to punch someone.
>>13
fuck this, I'm missing /g/. I could be bitching about how tech support threads suck and that we should be talking about o'neill cylinders.
>>14
I love iichan and the people on it, but I can't stand the slowness of that site after years of 4chan.
Even with the runoff of 4chan's downtime, its still so slooooow.
I miss /m/ ;_;
I miss /a/ ;_;
Sure it was nothing but an endless cycle of Type-Moon, Raki Shit and Higurashi threads we've had a million times before, but still ;_;
I'm fucking bored.
BANZAI!
（ ・∀・）
I miss /prog/ ;_;
It may have been a DISTRIBUTED attack, but somebody's behind it, and that somebody can bleed. Is an "executive action" required? Leave me some leads here.
O RLY?
Not only 4chan, but 7chan, 12chan & 420chan are down too.
COINCIDENCE?!
Can't be purely because of DDoS'sing 'from a bunch of guys that are angry that moot doesn't want to move #4chan to lulznet.'
The word going round is that YTMND & Ebamsworld are DDoS-attacking all these boards. This sounds the most credible theory, but I wonder... Could it be either those invaded by Anon in the past have organized & started getting their revenge against Anon, or have the Admins of ALL these boards been partyv&d in a sweep of these boards by the FBI? Whatever, I hope the shutdown is permanent. Anon has no-one to blame but themselves. Thety're to blame. If they'd STRICTLY followed Rules 1 & 2, and hadn't gone beyond their own little universe, all the -chans would still be up. But Anon started getting ideas above their stations & went beyond said little world & went out into RL, for their so-called 'Lulz'. And not just invasions. It was the death threats, then Messing With Football. The result? THAT report on Fox News, which blew Rules 1 & 2 apart. The WHOLE WORLD heard of Anon (ever heard of YouTube?!). Now the Lulz is upon them. Call it Karma. The Biter Bitten. One thing's for sure: Those Who Live By 'Lulz' shall DIE By Lulz. And the only one Lulz-ing now are those who brought down the -chans.
I for one welcome our /b/ & Anon-less Internet. Anonymous has become An Hero.
see what happens when channers engage in pedocrap? next time, stay legal, and you won't get ddosed.
>>25 >>COINCIDENCE?!
Yes. No one's attacked iichan, for one thing. 7 and 12chan went up and down all the time, but no one notices until 4chan happens to at the same time. There is no campaign against imageboards.
There is also no cabal.
7chan ddosed 4chan. 4chan is not being ddosed anymore. 4chan is down and will be down until their host works everything out with moot and co. (nullrouted etc)
there is no real reason why the ddosing was done. i was told by the attackers that the whole 'we ddosed 4chan because they didn't move to our network' thing was a lie and it was in fact done for the lulz.
hmmm what else.. oh yeah, it wasn't 'lulznet' that attacked 4chan. 7chan was a part of lulznet but they are not any longer. if you actually believe that an IRC network attacked a website then perhaps you should spend less time at the computer.. or more.. who knows?
>>25
doubt it. 4chan and ytmnd may not get along, but they have put aside their differences before to fight ebaums. it's unlikely that ytmnd would forget who they spawned off of and fight against its own father.
>>29
And don't forget its even less likely that YTMND would ever team up with ebaums for anything.
I wish 4chan would stay down forever. Is anyone with me on this?
i miss my /b/
Is something up with 7chan, too? I keep ending up redirected to Habbo everytime I go there...
This is what happens when you let teenagers use computers.
>>35 7chan was getting bandwidth raped by both the flood of users and a possible DDoS by lulznet for perceived injustices, so they bailed.
>>35
Isn't that against most domain name agreements, that you can't direct traffic to a site you don't own?
And now iichan seems to be down, too. What the?
I can still ping kei.iichan, but get "connection refused" when going to the frontpage or any board hosted there. Blarg.
iichan just had a minor blackout or so its back up now
There seems to be too much porn everywhere now. We need a cleaner messager board
Hahaha oh wow, you guys are fucking retards. 7chan has neither the resources nor the motive to DDOS 4chan. I'm both friends with p4ch3co (7chan owner) and also have spoken to someone involved in the DDOS. the lulznet story is exactly what is going on.
4chan's back up
>>45
USO DA!
Or at least here it's still down, could be DNS though.
Hay guys, what's this soup I keep hearing about?
Your culprit exposed:
http://www.geocities.com/kakamafive/
>>51
He was on #ed last night, too.
I believe in the views expressed in http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 more than http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/ now. Especially ever since the invasionfags started acting like an Internet Tough Guy version of The Borg.
Jesus, this Kakama guy is a douche. "I speak for anonymous," what crap.
>>52 I think Shii's essay still holds mostly true. Kakama's obviously out to make a name for himself, which makes him not 'anonymous'. He's just a nerd with an inflated sense of self-importance.
>>http://www.geocities.com/kakamafive/
>>Summary:
>>There is no cabal and no FBI raid, just some Internet Tough Guys who won't even let a tired and broken admin enjoy a meager bowl of soup. As with all things, the entirety of /i/ is not to blame.. those such as Kakama, however, who strive for little more than auto-fellating their ePeens are. And for what? To say "lulz" would be a idiotic cop-out, but honestly, look in the mirror the next time you rush into the bathroom to drain the spooge you've hastily cupped between your hand and naked stomach. Just ask yourself, "what the fuck am I doing with my life?"
>>Likewise, those Anonymous who are outraged at the rape of their motherland or IRC channel should also question themselves. There was once a man who said, "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." This man also drank his own urine, though - perhaps his advice should be taken with a tax-free grain of salt. Try this reasoning instead: these are our internets, our home. Anonymous has more pressing things to deal with than pitiful in-fighting. He need not forgive and will certainly never forget, but he is not obligated to continue such a pointless cycle of drama. Indeed, the well-cultured Anonymous would simply laugh at the absurdity of it all and post more Bridget.
>>After all, everyone is gay for Bridget; and this unity is comforting.
God damn /i/ faggots. Amen.
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>>29
Ever read Greek mythology? Half of the kids killed and ate the parents. I think it's highly possible that some Anon faggot (not fag) went and tried to raid YTMND on his own, and really pissed them off. The creators of YTMND may know who their father is, but i can guarantee that 98.9999999999999997% of the regular Joe Users have no fucking idea who 4chan is, and are pissed off at some asshat posting CP in their forum. Ebaums world... sigh... just plain sucks ass.
You win an infinite number of internets. If it weren't for whoever broke Rules 1 and 2 in the first place, none of us would give a shit about all of this. It's like Fight Club (which the first few rules were based off of). It's meant to be a totally exclusive club, but you can't keep something a secret for long, no matter how awesome it is. I was told about 4chan by at least six different people on the same day. Naturally, I kept it a secret for about a year, and then BOOM! Boards go down for the first time in a year and I freak out. I ask all my /b/tarded friends about it, and they all directed me to a shitload of other /b/tards who were even moar hardcore than the other people. It's a neverfucking ending cycle of violence and CP, but it needs to happen as more and more people get disgusted with 4chan's current state and sign off once and for all. If it weren't for 1&2 (the abscence thereof), there would be no more 4chan. It would've simply gone down with Moot and the original few who knew about it and sank without a bubble.
4chan is all I think about every day. I sometimes cry myself to sleep at night thinking about how long it's been down.
4chan was just up, now it's down again.
Or am I finally losing it?
>>60
But about 20 minutes ago, it was up again. What the hell?
SPOILERS!
The rules of /b/ were created by people that were new to /b/!
Have a nice day, kids.
>>62
Oldfags don't bother with /b/ anymore. They've all moved on to less shitty boards.
All of this Habbo Hotel, raiding and general "Internet Army" faggotry is all due to the newfags. Their actions in turn attract more newfags of the worst sort.
My duties as an Official Internet Monitor include reviewing the crashes of sites like 4chan. I must now issue the official notice that 4chan is up. Post tits and cocks. You must POAST JENNY TALS!
4chan appears to be down once more.
>>57
I can't tell if you're a troll or just a faggot.
cho0b: Only blocks can be null-routed (minimum a /5 but depends). All 4chan has is 3 IPs.
You're right about the rules.. /b/ has ZOMG NO RULES!
Anyway, if this is really a DDoS, and 4chan manages to intermittently come back during the attack, then it's very weak. Counting with 0.5 mbit as an average upload speed, one only needs 200 zombies to saturate 100 mbit. Small botnets start at 10000..
>>70
No, 4chan has much more than 3 IPs.
Off the top of my head:
team.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.163
yotsuba.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.165
www.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.166
-- also aliased to 4chan.org and mail.4chan.org
orz.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.168
tmp.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.169
zip.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.176
img.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.181
dat.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.182
fuuka.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.185
cgi.4chan.org has address 66.207.165.186There's more (IIRC, 4chan owns everything from 66.207.165.160 to .190 or so) but those are just what I can think of in 15 seconds.
this is getting me pissed off. wtf is 4chan down for again! anonymous does not forgive.
Missing /an/ here...
is this lulznet? must we attack their IRC servers? Who do I attack.!? I want blood and retribution.
(Cross-posted from iichan because it sums this up niceley.)
Lets put this as clear and simple as possible.
One, this whole OMG YOU RAID ME I RAID YOU business is as retarded as it gets, topped only by what started this whole mess. A bunch of what, 17 year old kids whining about IRC? Please.
Two, this will be over in due time. Idiots get bored fast.
Three, there is no point in attacking any single IP address. There is no point in trying to counter a distributed denial of service attack with another one. That helps no one.
The people who would actually suggest something like that should probably get off iichan, and go back to whatever hole they creeped out of.
(Also, DDoSing a site does not make you an 31337 h4x0r. All that you need for this is a distinct lack of a life, giving you enough time to figure out how to use one of several readily available tools. [See also >>70])
Tobin Bridge was right.
Apparently 4chan is to be turned off and left. Moot will move on to other things.
I would hope that moot would be smart enough to sell 4chan and try to get some money out of the whole thing rather than just shutting it down.
>>82
I think not! But I wouldn't be terribly sad if all those new dipshits finally had to go back to gaia and myspace.
>>83
No one in their right mind would buy that site.
Although there's lots of people who aren't in their right mind...
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>>85 I bet you could sell the domain to GoldenPalace.com or something.
lulz, anonymous, you are such a loser.
>Apparently 4chan is to be turned off and left. Moot will move on to other things.
WHAT?!?! Who told you this?
>Look for an official announcement regarding this soon.
Oh, I will. Until then, I'm not trusting that shit as far as I can throw it.
Every other chan was doing better when 4chan was down.
I don't believe it would work out. There would be a subsequent shitstorm with every /b/tard trolling every other board on the site. /b/ always responds to everything in the most idiotic ways. New reporting system? Time to post lots of CP to test it out. And whenever the board switches to and from forced anonymous, there's an uproar.
Truth. If you were a regular on any other /b/ board, you saw what happened when 4chan went down. "it's where we keep the retards" sums up 4chan /b/ pretty well.
That said, however, >>95 has a point. There were some points in time when it was actually a good thing for the slow boards. Sometimes even for a whole hour at a time...
There's another thread here somewhere about "4chan should split the /b/ board". I guess we sort of have an idea what would happen. And that some people there now actually know that there are other boards, so that maybe we're a little closer to that. (having multiple boards)
Or something. I'm tired...
>>98
Remember when the main content of /b/ was "witty" Photoshop threads? When Cock Mongler and Happy Negro were the first of these so called "memes"? When most /b/ posters were disgruntled ex-SA goons?
Nowadays /b/ is so fast and dumb the only things that remains are camwhores, shitty copypaste trolls and memes stolen from GameFAQs.
>>99
moot recently changed the flood limits on /b/, supposedly to slow the board down. Smart, but I still think he's going about it the wrong way, and making a second /b/ (and not linking the original one anymore from the front page, or even mentioning that this happened for that matter -- so that people who just cruise into 4chan and click "random" don't stumble on it and start being retarded) would be a much better solution. Oldschool /b/tards (who presumably have img.4chan.org/b/ bookmarked directly) would keep posting, and the newfags would get their own board to fag up.... but eventually the newfag board would shit out a gold nugget and it'd carry over to the "old" /b/ by those obsessive compulsive people who visit every board because they have nothing else to do.