> 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.
I want my /B!!!!!!!!
>>256
>>258
I don't know. There's a lot of confusion right now, as there seems to be a consensus that this can't all be raidchan's doing - if they have this kind of capability, then they've been seriously holding out during previous raids. Nobody seems to know what's going on with certainty.
This is getting serious, though, because an outage of this duration is the type of thing that site owners usually involve the FBI over (and moot has done that before).
can we make this thread /b/?
>>260
lol wishful thinking much? FBI could care less about 4chan, hell they'd probably welcome this, considering all the shit it's given to them already.
>>263
Normally, yes, but I suspect they are going to take pretty seriously anyone who has the capability of this level of DDoS attack, regardless of the target. 3-5Gb directed at one site is pretty big (and given that they are hitting multiple sites at once, their capacity is even greater).
Even though they find 4chan distasteful (and in point of fact, they mostly find it inane, rather than threatening), they have a legal obligation to uphold the law, and, at any rate, they are not likely to want to leave a threat on the loose who could conceivably turn its attention to more problematic targets. What do you think the political repercussions would be if some "legitimate" site got hit by the same perpetrator(s) down the road, only to find out the FBI could have done something earlier, but didn't "because they were only hitting -chan sites?"
In this era when the authorities take every incident of cyber-crime pretty seriously, these people are asking for a visit from the partyvan.
"What do you think the political repercussions would be if some "legitimate" site got hit by the same perpetrator(s) down the road, only to find out the FBI could have done something earlier"
9/11 would happen. oh shi...
for the douche bags talking bad about /b/ suck a big one! all i have to say is raptor jesus is judging you wryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!
oh and i heard you like mudkips!
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I miss /rs/... :(
I want /toy/ back ;o;
IT WAS CLOUD'S FAULT
AND WILL SMITH, AND CHRONOS
This place is full of fail and aids on great levels. I am disappointed, yet not surprised.
Also, cocks.
Needs moar pooper.
niggers
Anyone else think moot might be using the DDOS as an excuse to finally give up? Think about it, in the Time interview he's expressed his frustration over the difficulty in running the site with barely enough money to pay for it, and that stupid cat site making 3 million bucks while he gets nothing at all might be the final straw for him. Added with the incresingly negative publicity and how problematic /b/ has gotten over the past 2 years, and, well...maybe it's time to give up.
Considering all the shit that the site has gone through over the past 5 years, it's more surprising that it even lasted that long. Now that it's too popular, and subsequently too expensive to run, the DDOS is the perfect excuse to shut it down for good. The blame for the site's downfall gets shifted to someone else, while moot can simply sneak out the back door and no one will ever blame him. The end?
>>274
I doubt it. He had just announced that new features and changes to improve the site were coming soon. While some might argue that death would be the biggest improvement of all for 4chan, I don't think moot really feels that way. He actually has been very annoyed about the whole "moot hates 4chan," idea floating around.
If, OTOH, you think he might simply not be exerting maximum effort to get the site back up as quickly as possible - sort of using the opportunity to relax a bit - then you might be on to something. He certainly doesn't take the site as seriously as some of the users do (which I would argue is a sign that he is still sane).
well i dont care about /b/ that much as i care for the other boards..
DDOSing 4chan, like pissing in an ocean of OH SHI-
i miss /k/ so hard. Ive even resorted to airshit forums :'(
It was probably because Alan Moore found out that the kids wearing the V for Vendetta mask weren't fans of his book, just idiots from -chans.
Don't fuck with Alan Moore.
>>278
http://kei.iichan.net/guns/wakaba.html
Several /k/ regulars are there. But unfortunately, without any gun noobs or liberal gun banners, there's practically nothing to talk about at all.
I don't care for shit like /b/ etc.
He should just keep the porn and /x/ (for lulz) and i'll be happy as a fuck.
I fucking miss 4chan like shit. Especially /x/. With all the bullshitty horror. That was the only place I visited. For all that creepypasta shit. 7chan doesn't even begin to compare to 4chan.
I miss my /mu/ ._.
So....any ideas when those fuckers might give it up?
Seriously, are they that butthurt towards an imageboard they have to put this much effort into their bitching?
Seriously, where am I gonna discuss /co/mic Con?
Firefox says Animu & Mango is still my most visited. Dammit.
srs lolz killing here, net needs lest skiddies.
And nothing of value was lost
>>284
They have nothing else to do since their lives are meaningless and spent all day in the chat room.
who gives a flying fuck if failchan is down? just go an hero you faggots
Maybe scientology f final fighting back.
thank about it, how much trafic dose 4chan get, and how many computers would you need to ddos the site, to get it down for so long ?
Scientology, have bothe the money to invest in all the coputer, or they can get all there followers to do it, and they have a motiv to do so, 4chan did it to them
but ehh its just like .. my opining
>>290
why don't you pack some more retarded memes into your sentences faggot
Well, I want my 4chan back >( 7chan smells bad
shit. /k/ should be in Rhodesia by now. ffs.
"Sunday, July 27, 2008
We're aiming to have the site back online later tonight (EST).
Hope you've enjoyed your vacation!
by moot @ 4:49 PM "
HURRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!1
So how long will it be up before your down again?
Also, Piratebay is down....again.
so what are we doing with the splitting of /b/ is it happeninG?
>>296
Just saw that, myself.
I am glad, but mostly because it will help rid iichan of asshats. I'm not sure I'm going back to 4chan with the rest of the non-/b/ refugees. The first two days or so of waiting out the DDoS here (Tuesday and Wednesday), where a a few of us who were sporadic visitors to iichan anyhow were hanging out, but the masses hadn't found it yet, were pretty good. Then the throngs of uncouth children (either in actual age or merely in terms of mental maturity), showed up and turned the place to shit. Suddenly many of the boards were flooded with stale and/or stupid memes, trolling, namecalling, and off-topic image macros - all the things that are wrong with 4chan (and all the things, mind you, that are supposed to be banned, even on 4chan, outside of /b/). I'm sick and tired of that crap (I'll admit that there was a time when I was guilt of it, too; but I've outgrown it), so maybe I'll just stay here and hope that 4chan will contain it in the future. There's no denying that the traffic on iichan/wakachan/4-ch is lighter than I'd prefer, but the S/N ratio is such that iichan may still come out ahead of 4chan, when the quality of posts is considered.
>>300
I don't care what they do with /b/ as long as it gets back to its purpose of keeping the idiotic shit-posting contained. If it actually did its job, I'd probably be more enthused about the rest of 4chan.
So 'bout what time will you be back up? Its 5pm on the west coast here.
Or are you still being Ddos'd?
i miss /x/
=(
>>303
me too fellow x-file.
I just bought the book communion and wanted to talk about it with some people =/
4 Chan still down....WTF Moot!?!
hmmm maybe it was the hiphop sites that got hacked by 4channers, maybe theyre getting their revenge
>>306
Nigga please, those rude boys wouldn't have the botnet for an attack this big
SHOULD BE UP SOON!
where is my 4chan goodness... i miss my /b/ T_T
I WANT 4CHAN NAO!
I WANT 4CHAN NAO!
It's back up, but Firefox keeps giving me "Network Timeout" errors whenever I try to post something. Same for anyone else?
Please?
When I even try and go to the site I get a page fucking load error.
206.220.140.2 ns1.4chan.org
216.213.88.50 ns3.4chan.org
207.126.64.165 ns2.4chan.org
207.126.64.166 www.4chan.org
207.126.64.167 content.4chan.org
207.126.64.168 orz.4chan.org
207.126.64.169 tmp.4chan.org
207.126.64.171 rs.4chan.org
207.126.64.172 static.4chan.org
207.126.64.176 zip.4chan.org
207.126.64.177 bin.4chan.org
207.126.64.178 dis.4chan.org
207.126.64.181 img.4chan.org
207.126.64.182 dat.4chan.org
207.126.64.186 cgi.4chan.org
207.126.64.187 nov.4chan.org
207.126.64.166 4chan.org
4chan got new IPs. Dump those in your HOSTS file (replace existing entries if you have them) and you won't have to wait for the DNS to update.
and where do we find the HOSTS file? (I suck with computers)
i want /b/
I just had a wank it was really good
Fucking morons, it's not down at all. This is just Chemo.
How to get back on:
Navigate to your HOSTS file (C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc) Then open the "hosts" file with notepad/wordpad and add the following:
206.220.140.2 ns1.4chan.org
216.213.88.50 ns3.4chan.org
207.126.64.165 ns2.4chan.org
207.126.64.166 www.4chan.org
207.126.64.167 content.4chan.org
207.126.64.168 orz.4chan.org
207.126.64.169 tmp.4chan.org
207.126.64.171 rs.4chan.org
207.126.64.172 static.4chan.org
207.126.64.176 zip.4chan.org
207.126.64.177 bin.4chan.org
207.126.64.178 dis.4chan.org
207.126.64.181 img.4chan.org
207.126.64.182 dat.4chan.org
207.126.64.186 cgi.4chan.org
207.126.64.187 nov.4chan.org
207.126.64.166 4chan.org
Save, Close, Problem solved.
I keep getting something about check pathway to see if its right, and it doesn't work. Any help on this?
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vv
4chan's down again. The main page loads VERY slowly and lacks stylesheets, feels like DDoS again. Yesterday it was back up, and soon afterwards AT spam filled /b/ once more.
Maybe moot got a bigger pipe when he moved datacenters, but that's hardly a solution to a DDoS.
its intermittent for me. other people are confirming that the DDoS is back on though. looks like its either a smaller attack this time. it was unreachable a minute ago but now is working, albeit slooooow.
could be a prelude to a larger attack.
>>323
meant to say either a smaller attack OR they havent gotten all the botnets up yet
Now I'm almost certain it's not 'pacifico' from raidchan doing it. A bored-attention-whoring-16-year-old simply does not have this kind of capability.
I'm still leaning towards it being 4nontalk/Sysop/Kimmo.
Why so serious?
4 Chan is down again. I've tried several different locations bt still cannot access the site.
Thanks, that worked. Sorry about my dumb tonight!
4chan being down is one thing. but status.4chan is down as well. if i dont get my daily dose of annoying camwhores, cp, newfaggotry, and ancient meme i could die. we need 4chan!!!!111
i miss /b/ ;_;
i /r/ 4chan
I MISS /b/ AS WELL
it was the only place to help me solve my issues
with funny advice
such as bengay on balls
haha
Anonymous is angry, when we find out who did this we're going to bomb the shit out of them.
With the whole fucking internets behind us
Stop it with the fake IPs, the real ones all start with 207
This is lies, it will ruin your computer.
faggot, those are fake, stop bitching here
Editing the hosts file worked beautifully, thanks!
Is editing the hosts file really working, or are people just full of shit?
I'm sure it's safe.
Boy I wish I could trust anonymous.
It sure works... but since it's widely avaiable it's no chemo for the cancer.
how do i browsed 4chan?
i accidentally a 4chonz, is this dangerous?
Its interesting how defendant people have become on imageboards.
lol im a drunk fag. dependent.
When do you all think that we can go bak on 4chan? I miss /b/...
If you are running Vista64, do you still edit in the System32 folder? It gives a "Cannot create the file" error.
How the hell do I save the hosts file as something other than a text file? It wants to be a text file! I want it to be just a file!
Can't get it to work otherwise.
>>353 save your file as "hosts" in the save as... dialog, WITH the quotes.
Oh, the drama.
Well, I'm going to go make some soup.
