Anyone know what is up with Amigaworld?

[Argo]

Kesa,
   Hey, chill out.

Really, people. No need for the negativity.

I just find it an odd coincidence that AW is down and Amigans got hacked.  I'm just glad that the lights are still on here.

[Templario]

Perhaps their vanity or how they treat people, now they are suffer the consequences, and how it will be for that they need money to pay the server, well, that they don't call to my door.

[Kesa]

I'm cool! I just think it's really funny when AW.net goes down for a while and now they are coming on here. It's funny! :roflmao:

[fishy_fiz]

Eh, what?

My thoughts exactly  

@Kesa

You do realise zerohero is a mod at aw.net ? As for "not a chance", since when did you dictate who can or can't use amiga.org ?
You're really on the un side of usual arent you ?

[BozzerBigD]

It's a shame it got hacked. Yes it's overly OS4.x centric but they're a good bunch of people generally. Lets hope they get it repaired soon. I don't understand the hacker mentality. Everyone suffers :angry:

[Kesa]

Actually i did know. But on here is isn't a mod so i'm taking the opportunity to hassle a mod knowing i can get away with it

[mikeymike]

I had a quick look last night, and it seems to me that their nameservers are down.  Personally I would be surprised if a nameserver got hacked, because usually it's the only role for a particular machine, so all that needs to be done is for the OS to be reasonably locked down and patched, the DNS service too and perhaps an SMTP service too for reporting.

Plus, if the nameserver got hacked, then why not stick an additional "fingers up" at the site administrators by changing the DNS for the website to point at a "we hacked you" type page - I'm sure there's one on the Internet somewhere so the hackers don't give away any information that might identify them.  It's what I would expect from a standard prank hack job.

[Kesa]

@BozzerBigD. Cool avatar

[Karlos]

Oh bollocks you are! Prove you are who you say you are!

OK assuming you are who you say you are what happens now? Your site goes down and now you lot are coming over here? Not a chance.

Many of the long term members of the site are already members here, myself included. Look, the 'forum wars' was a long time ago.
There's no need for the hostility.

[Kesa]

Opps, Ok my 'not a chance' was interpreted the wrong way, i wasn't being hostile i was just poking fun

Forum wars? :confused:

[wawrzon]

@kesa: zerohero is a valued member of the community and a cooler mod over there, just saying since you seem not to know.

@templario: so it is enough for you your os4 hardware to break, and being quite reasonably expelled from aw.net for a week, for calling others members names, to hate your previously most loved site? see no reason at all.

[buzz]

If they did get hacked, then they should be back online with the previous days backup after making sure the hole is closed. If they dont have a yesterdays backup, then I'm not sure how much sympathy I can have. I hope this isnt another case of a large website run without backups, but it seems that there is a huge amount of incompetency when it comes to hosting..

[smerf]

A-eon girls are hotter

Hi,

I have a joystick for every one of those A-eon's

smerf

[Piru]

I had a quick look last night, and it seems to me that their nameservers are down.

I took a look couple of days ago already and here are my findings:
- Both nameservers and the web server appear down to the internet. None of the servers respond to any packets from the internet, no RST to SYNs or reply ICMP ECHO.
- Other servers in the same network block are working.
- Traceroute to other servers in the same network block shows this:

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7  217.118.16.26 (217.118.16.26)  375.181 ms  359.319 ms  319.435 ms
 8  62.193.251.115 (62.193.251.115)  260.044 ms  288.779 ms  300.288 ms
 9  62.193.231.xx (62.193.231.xx)  379.572 ms  249.112 ms  299.767 ms

...while traceroute to amigaworld.net web server and both name servers shows this:

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7  217.118.16.26 (217.118.16.26)  336.343 ms  269.567 ms  369.027 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * ^C

This is really interesting as it would suggest that the amigaworld.net servers are nullrouted early on.

It could well be that the servers themselves are running just fine on the background, but are just totally severed from the internet.

Obviously none of this explains why this would be happening.

[Wayne]

I'd hate to hazard a guess, but perhaps they were using a Hosting Provider that was either hacked (10%) or closed down suddenly.  Doubtful this has much if anything to do with Amigaworld, but if they had a backup, it should be easy enough to find a new host and change DNS servers.  Could be back online in an hour or so.

Hell, for that matter, I could provide them with a hosting account.

[Karlos]

I took a look couple of days ago already and here are my findings:
- Both nameservers and the web server appear down to the internet. None of the servers respond to any packets from the internet, no RST to SYNs or reply ICMP ECHO.
- Other servers in the same network block are working.
- Traceroute to other servers in the same network block shows this:

Code: [Select]

7  217.118.16.26 (217.118.16.26)  375.181 ms  359.319 ms  319.435 ms
 8  62.193.251.115 (62.193.251.115)  260.044 ms  288.779 ms  300.288 ms
 9  62.193.231.xx (62.193.231.xx)  379.572 ms  249.112 ms  299.767 ms

...while traceroute to amigaworld.net web server and both name servers shows this:

Code: [Select]

7  217.118.16.26 (217.118.16.26)  336.343 ms  269.567 ms  369.027 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * ^C

This is really interesting as it would suggest that the amigaworld.net servers are nullrouted early on.

It could well be that the servers themselves are running just fine on the background, but are just totally severed from the internet.

Obviously none of this explains why this would be happening.

Someone tripped over a main switch in the datacenter...