hd-bits.ro under heavy Denial of service attack

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ronnie_gogs

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For all those who use this great site for great HD content....

Lately you might have noticed that its very slow....the reason is its under heavy DDOS (distributed denial of service attack) by more than 5000 ips

For those of you who don't know, DDoS stand for "Distributed Denial of Service", and is a type of attack that usually brings servers to their knees. However, yesterday, around 4 PM -500 EST I had banned most of the IP space responsible for the denial of service. In a little under two hours, the program I wrote to stop this particular DDoS had banned over THREE THOUSAND IP addresses. The perpetrator seemed to have gotten the picture that the traffic was no longer welcome here, as the attack was called off, and this server returned to normal functionality.

This morning brought a new onslaught, however, as the perpetrator seems to have increased his/her viciousness. Truly, this server is under heavy attack at the current moment. Rest assured, though, that this attack will not keep us down. My DDoS evasion tools are working hard, and have now banned over FIVE THOUSAND IP addresses from this site - bans that I am considering making permanent to prevent the re-initiation of this attack. You may notice the site working slower than usual, but please bear with us, for the longer the server is running, the more IP addresses the code will ban, and therefore the faster the server will respond to your legitimate queries.

If for any reason you have been banned from this server, and are able to read this message from a friend's computer, please let one of the staff members on this site know so that you can be unbanned.

Thank you for your time and patience, and happy torrenting!
22.09.2008 - Down-time
We are sorry for the down-time.. seams there is someone out there that really doesn't like us. The last few days the server was subjected to a server DDOS attack.

If it hadn't been for our honorable user to help us fight back the attacks the server would still be down. In the name of the entire community, we appreciate everything that you have done for us. Thank you!

Source :site annoucement
 
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