** All sites DOWN **

Mar 20 2008, 04:38 AM

All domains except forum.jcink.com and support.b1.jcink.com are down at this time.

A massive distributed denial of service attack on our systems has been on going since 12:45 AM. It is 4:30 AM at the time of this posting. I've issued a new IP address but it is not helping since it's an attack on the b1 subdomains.

This leaves me with only the ability to activate the 3 domains for this site.

We believe someone in the *.b1.jcink.com domains is being attacked and we don't know who. We're currently trying to find out.

Domain Owners:

Please re-point your domain, adding an A record on 67.81.196.2 which is our new IP address

b1.jcink.com, and all other url users

There is nothing you can do at this time.

If anyone has any information on who is responsible, email admin@jcink.com as soon as you can.

When will service be fully back?

We don't know. How long is impossible to say at this time. We will point the b1.jcink.com domains until the morning, somewhere in the late or early hours, whenever we decide, EST around 11AM. If after we point the domains, the attack is still ongoing, we plan to call our provider and see if we can get assistance. It is unknown how long it will take to restore things if this continues.

I deeply apologize for this, but there is nothing we can do at the moment. If anyone has ANY information on the attackers please email admin@jcink.com. Thank you.

Comments

  1. Yami Atemu Says:

    Man, this sucks..nobody else but me, you and like 2 other people are on though, hopefull this will be fixed by the time people are awake

  2. Kelly Says:

    thanks for the annoucement

  3. patypompom Says:

    Thank you.

  4. sonic_luigi15 Says:

    QUOTE (Yami Atemu @ March 20, 2008 03:52 am) Man, this sucks..nobody else but me, you and like 2 other people are on though, hopefull this will be fixed by the time people are awake

    yeah... hopefully.

  5. Broadsword Says:

    Damn sucks, hope you guys can get this sorted soon.

  6. Yami Atemu Says:

    QUOTE (Broadsword @ March 20, 2008 05:35 am) Damn sucks, hope you guys can get this sorted soon.

    Sooner or later yea..

  7. cheating98 Says:

    This is terrible. Please get it fixed soon. Do you think the people being attacked are the same ones that were getting attacked before?

  8. Yami Atemu Says:

    I have no clue, but its a massive DDoS

  9. cheating98 Says:

    QUOTE (Yami Atemu @ March 20, 2008 05:50 am) I have no clue, but its a massive DDoS

    I know, but before there was a website DDOS'ing another forum because they had an issue with them, and that caused a lot of downtime. I wouldn't be surprised if it was them again.

  10. Yami Atemu Says:

    Was this the recent one from like 2 or so weeks ago?

  11. cheating98 Says:

    QUOTE (Yami Atemu @ March 20, 2008 06:07 am) Was this the recent one from like 2 or so weeks ago?

    No, this was a couple of months ago. I think it was a popular Naruto forum.

  12. Yami Atemu Says:

    Dont remember this..it happened at 12:45 am, and I was able to access my forum around 1:30 for about 2 minutes, then it went back to "this page cannot be displayed"

  13. Riku Says:

    Well, I dunno anyone who even KNOWN What DDoS means....

  14. Taryn Says:

    QUOTE (Riku @ March 20, 2008 05:14 am) Well, I dunno anyone who even KNOWN What DDoS means....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Distributed_attack

  15. Yami Atemu Says:

    QUOTE (Riku @ March 20, 2008 06:14 am) Well, I dunno anyone who even KNOWN What DDoS means....

    distributed denial of service attack

  16. Riku Says:

    i kno what it is

  17. Yami Atemu Says:

    QUOTE (Riku 8 minutes ago)Well, I dunno anyone who even KNOWN What DDoS means.... Sure had me fooled

  18. Riku Says:

    yeah...

  19. cheating98 Says:

  20. OmGwTfLoLrOfLmFaO Says:

    Thats a bummer O_o hope it'll be hope soon

  21. Low_rider Says:

    ^ he looks like a suspect

  22. .Batman Says:

    Lol, yeah he does.

  23. playingfair49 Says:

    you all look like suspects to me

  24. OmGwTfLoLrOfLmFaO Says:

    Aaah come on.. ><

  25. RIVAL_31 Says:

    I hope this get's fixed soon...

    I was setting up a smash bros. tourney at my forum place then BOOM.

    I thought it was my connection until I asked the other members to check it.

  26. Riku Says:

    I kno

  27. Zack Fair Says:

    As a member of Naruto Sagas, I thank you for doing whatever you are doing to remedy the cause.

  28. cubano23 Says:

    i h ope this gets fixed fast

  29. hatdude Says:

    Well I hope you get this problem sorted out!

  30. chipper Says:

    Question: If this gets fixed, will all the boards come back the way they were?

  31. roro808 Says:

    Yup, it will be sorted out, Jcink is teh BOMB! o.O

  32. jude. Says:

    thanks for keeping us updated. i was bombarded with questions about my site, thankfully I could relay the info you posted. Good luck with getting it back up soon

  33. ANBU squad Says:

    Hope u get the site back faster i am developing a new site

  34. ~Lupe~ Says:

    Do you know when the sites will be back up?

  35. Kelly Says:

    QUOTE (~Lupe~ @ March 20, 2008 09:34 am) Do you know when the sites will be back up?

    there is really no way of knowing.. jcink said he would try around 11am but if the attacks are still going on, they will have to seek outside assistance

  36. ~Lupe~ Says:

    11am et?

  37. coolmike454 Says:

    well this sucks i was in the middle of making forums for my new board and setting up everything and now it doesnt load

  38. Kelly Says:

    yes Im sorry, 11am est

  39. Demon_skeith Says:

    well this sucks I hope you can fix is soon jcink

  40. Jcink Says:

    The b1 domains have now been repointed and we will know whats going on within the hour. Once again I really do apologize, and hope for the best.

  41. jude. Says:

    ^^ thanks!

  42. Miss Princess Says:

    How come i can get on and it is .bi.jcink....i couldnt a minute ago

  43. coolmike454 Says:

    thank you very much jcink

  44. MWG Says:

    Cheers J, just updated domains now

  45. MisterKalas Says:

    Jcink, I just hope you can get this situation under control as soon as possible.

  46. Jcink Says:

    1:02PM:

    This is still a major problem. I pointed it at 11 and it took around a half an hour to become active. Within minutes, we were down again. Someone is still doing it. I am going to try a few more things to isolate this problem and confirm for sure which domain range is being hit. After that, I am phoning our provider for help.

    Also, I changed the IP again. It's back to the old one: 67.81.111.171

  47. TJ Says:

    Jcink I was just wondering, my board is back up, but none of the graphics are loading (they are all jcink hosted).......will these come back soon if ever?

    I also just wanted to mention that you are unable to edit posts on any forum, something wrong with that as well.

    PS Long time no see, too bad it's under these circumstances.

  48. Jcink Says:

    All of that is because of domain problems. When things are stable again, everything will be fine.

  49. playingfair49 Says:

    Do you suspect the same people that were responsible the last time?

  50. Ddraiggoch06 Says:

    Wow, that was a major attack. Looks like things are starting to get stable now. Great work Jcink.

  51. leafsfan7 Says:

    Keep it up Jcink. Thanks for keeping the service great.

  52. Demon_skeith Says:

    way to go jcink! thank you for all that you do

  53. Sahil Says:

    so change the ip back to 67.81.111.171?

  54. Broadsword Says:

    Good work guys.