And We’re Back!!!
This site (and others on my server) has been down for a few hours this afternoon, due to a massive pinging from China. I finally tracked down the source of the pinging to the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China based in Sichuan. Thankfully it wasn’t a DDOS but rather probably just an overly keen student trying to perform a download of an mp3 file via a russian search engine.
IP address blocked, problem solved and email sent to abuse@net.edu.cn.
All is now well (and all manner of things shall be well).
How do you, like, know all this stuff? I truly envy you nerds.
What is a DDOS?
(Distributed) Denial of Service. An attempt to bring down a website / server by various means, mainly by overloading it. Often done from several locations hence “distributed”.