:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Yep no worries for them. Even if they have to start from scratch, their uploaders will get everything back in no time.

Nigga please. It's a PR stunt to woo the resident sheep and possibly lure the current RCN clients in.

Get real, no one is flying any techs anywhere.

Like, Whoa.

Shit, fml

Yes, you're right. Thats why I always use a low TTL and hosted DNS. DNSMadeEasy.com is awesome!

To those that are saying they should have one flip backup hosts and all of that other BS.

Stop trolling.

These companies are not Bank of America.

This has happened exactly once. One or two days of down time costs a lot less than redundant hosting.

Get real. Off-site backups is all you need. If things go past 48 hours then they can look into having another company bring them back up from a backup.

By the sounds of it I've experienced more downtime with Gmail and Facebook than RCN customers. If those companies can survive it, RCN customers can.

Perspective, people, perspective.

You are correct ... once propagated, you set them back to a default value.

Did you guys backtrace the hacker?
Feel free to leave that cocksuckers xvideos.com site down as long as possible.

Hey, quote this, its rare for me!


Fuck you, asshole. I dare you to say that to my face as I have been boxing for nine months.

While you may have no character or respect for others, that doesn't give you the right to judge mine. PR stunts are for pussies with time on their hands. I leave more business in my inbox due to time constraints than most competitors have altogether.

That said, while I myself would never expect a similar offer if I was in that situation, I can imagine their horror and sympathize enough with the problem and its implications where yes, I would drop things to help.

I might not be the richest guy in the room but I work hard, sleep well at night.. and have tremendous karma from a lot of good deeds.

Brad

P.S. - I advised an RCN customer earlier to wait it out rather than me whore it out - by their own admission, stellar service for years already. If I knew the owner, I would have called already to ask in person and off the boards.

I LOL'd :1orglaugh

and my email is down:disgust

well put.

Very well put!

Brad

should have used a usb stick

What means boxing?You didn't said fuck off to anyone for nine months? :)

wake me when its back

whoops :Oh crap

I am very much against the death penalty... But hackers..... Aaaaargh!
I would like to make an exception for them! ;)

So whats the status now, I see Pichunter is back up.

They have been up like this for more than 12 hours. But the thumbs don't show up

Oops was too fast, saw it loading and thought they were up.

My bad.

Soo which paysite programs are affected? I would like to put their links on backup till all is fixed for obvious reasons.

gl getting it sorted. im on a small server there but luckily dont have any big income producing sites anymore. RCN have been good over the years though, i hope they get this shit fixed.

your an idiot.

if rcn was located near brad im sure he would lend a hand not all hosting companies work like vultures.

+1 :pimp

Here's a starting place: http://serversiders.com/as46652

guys at rcn must be so stressed :\

One logical explanation is the following:

Somebody got ahold of the root ssh key, likely an ex employee or current employee.

They logged into all the machines, changed the root pass/keys or replaced the ssh server with a custom one and then systematically disabled apache/lighttpd/nginx/mysql/pgsql etc (you'll notice that the sites running apache show forbidden but the ones that were running lighttpd just time out), then they gave rcn an ultimatum, effectively holding them hostage for a calculated sum of money (somebody who knows what is at stake, again, likely an employee/ex-employee). They probably also had the insight to make sure backups were affected as this really don't seem like a heat-of-the-moment thing. This is premeditated. The servers are still online, they are still 'running' the dns is still working... nothing was 'corrupted' or trashed, RCN just doesn't have access any more, holding them in a tight position as the servers are spread out in multiple locations and they don't have anyone 'infront' of them to use the console or do mass operating system re-installs+backup recoveries.

This is the only situation that really makes sense, there is NO gain to be made from hacking RCN and deleting everything. There is always motive involved, almost always monetary. As such, I assume somebody is doing this for financial gain and they are likely holding it hostage until they get the money, which if it is a wire, would be quite a few days. :\ I know of a registrar that was in a very similar situation recently. This registrar was being ddosed by a disgruntled ex-customer who had their domains deleted or blocked and they basically kept ddossing the domain servers until the registrar finally gave in.

I really don't want this to turn into an epass drama thread/situation and incite pandemonium or mass exodus, but this is really the most probable situation as it stands now.

:2 cents:

Well, isn't this what you are doing right now? :winkwink:

A DDOS is clearly not what's happening here and is a TOTALLY different situation.

No one is holding anything hostage. A common phrase in the networking world is there's no security without physical security. In other words, if you can access a box, you can't lock someone out of it. A company hosting as many large sites as RCN has physical access to the machine, either personally, or through their data center. You can reset the root password of a box in 5 minutes if you can actually get to it. So unless you're implying that their data centers are literally being held hostage, IE: with guns, then your just fear mongering.

Also, anger and revenge are plenty of motive. In fact, their some of the best motives and pretty damn common. It's definitely possible (even likely) that the hacker is a current or ex employee, though.

Because... ? Dude you can do better then that can't you, elaborate on it.

Mike

many big sites are still down, that really sucks :Oh crap

Last news from them:

"We are still in progress on restoring data and connectivity, we'll update you with more details as soon as possible."

:disgust

If they could just boot into a shell and reset the root password for all the boxes in only 5 minutes then we'd be out of this already, wouldn't we?

I would be very surprised to see if this wasn't about money, somewhere along the line of motives.

Also, just to clarify, I wasn't implying that this was due to a ddos, just that the same effect would be achieved, a controllable lapse of service that somebody could use as leverage. Anyway, sure would be good to get a proper update with some details to put some worries to rest.

Hmmm... Well, traffic on my biggest tube (legal, of course) increased by 7k overnight. Plus I'm making some mad sales during the last 1 1/2 days. And I hear the same from other webmasters and program owners.

Might just be a coincidence, but I definitely see some motives here. :winkwink:

I wonder when someone will claim responsibility.

These sites have been down for a while, but seriously, you'd expect RCN to be able to put a short explanation on their website which is now just 403 Forbidden.

I wonder if some security guys will be looking for a new job Monday ?

My traffic incrased, too.

with sales and traffic up i wouldnt mind xvideos staying down
screw them

"I get up, I get downnnnnn..."