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Websites dying!
« on: October 04, 2010, 02:20:14 pm »
So, anyone else notice that a bunch of websites are being really unhappy lately? First it was Armaholic.com, now it's isitfunnytoday.com... and now some reddit sites are going down, but that may be just reddit effects...

I have heard that there was some kind of Ddos attack going on somewhere because of 4chan, and I suppose that there's also a possiblity of some new exploit being found in Apache.

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: Unhappy in the sense of being completely inaccessable, replaced with squatter sites, or not having an index and going straight to the backend file structure.
« Last Edit: October 04, 2010, 02:31:13 pm by PTTG?? »
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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2010, 02:24:16 pm »
What do you mean by unhappy?

There is alot of bad weather in the east, so that could be part of it.
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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2010, 02:49:01 pm »
the 4chan thing is Anti-Anti-Piracy (MPAA,RIAA, various other related sites in other countries, and aiplex.com, who the **AAs hired to DDoS some pirate sites.) shouldn't be affecting any reddit sites, or the other two.
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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2010, 03:15:58 pm »
Oh, I know what it is. I bet it's something to do with IPv4 exaustion.

Only 240 days of internet left. enjoy it while you can!
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 03:33:56 pm »
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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2010, 03:35:53 pm »
What the hell is IPv4 exhaustion. Oh God, is this some sort of internet 2012 bullshit?
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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2010, 03:54:36 pm »
IPv4 is the maximum possible amount of unique IP addresses using the current system, which we are running out of.

IPv6 is available, but the switch is going to be messy.
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2010, 04:01:51 pm »
Dr.Z and CJ, Are you two related?

Anyway, you know IPs? 172.452.123.432, for instance? Four sets of three decimal numbers, which represent the actual binary address.

Each computer on the internet- well, that is, at least every modem or router or other gateway to the internet- needs to have a unique one.

Now, 999,999,999,999 computers sounds like a lot, but it isn't quite distributed that way. Y'see, when they where first starting up, they gave out IP addresses like crazy. A trillion here, this comany gets 500 billion, and so on. And a great many are already locked off; 127.xxx.xxx.xxx can't be used by the internet, along with several others, because of various inferstructure reasons.

When all is said and done, a very small number of IPs remain, and the consumption of that namespace is increasing as more people try to get online.

Don't belive me? Check out The Wiki.

Of course, they had a plan to fix it- a new system you may have heard about, IPv6- it's just that it's been around for half a decade and none of the ISPs have gotten around to implementing it. Odds are, they won't even get started until the whole system implodes.

I rather like IPv6. It's eight sets of four hexdecimal numbers, giving us FF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF,FFF possible addresses, or 2128 addresses, and lets some lucky internet guy get DEAD.BEEF.BABE.CAFE as their IP.

239 days to go now...
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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2010, 05:10:42 pm »
That does sound like it has a big potential for chaos.

Probably more "lots of silly bugs" than "end of the world as we know it", though.
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2010, 05:16:25 pm »
I think my computer is already set up to use those type connections.

I just hope that Toady One has adapted the site for IPv6.
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2010, 05:46:08 pm »
Quote from: Leafsnail on October 04, 2010, 05:10:42 pm
That does sound like it has a big potential for chaos.

Probably more "lots of silly bugs" than "end of the world as we know it", though.

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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2010, 08:21:43 pm »
Quote from: PTTG?? on October 04, 2010, 05:46:08 pm
Quote from: Leafsnail on October 04, 2010, 05:10:42 pm
That does sound like it has a big potential for chaos.

Probably more "lots of silly bugs" than "end of the world as we know it", though.

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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2010, 08:25:37 pm »
Quote from: PTTG?? on October 04, 2010, 04:01:51 pm
999,999,999,999

Nope, each number is only a byte, so the highest IP is 255.255.255.255, giving 65536² addresses. (256^4, but there is no ANSI for ^4)\
Only 4294967296.

ALso, I think that IPv6 can be sent through IPv4, and google has an IPv6 version, so it really shouldn't be a total disaster.
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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2010, 08:28:35 pm »
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Re: Websites dying!
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2010, 02:28:13 am »
Superscript tags? Oh come on. A much better way to do it would be to use U+2074 superscript four, or ⁴. In fact, I automatically get that when I type ^4. ⁴⁴⁴⁴. (256²)² = 256⁴.
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