Grats & LJ
Aug. 8th, 2009 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firefly124Grats for Friday: I am immensely grateful to have grown up in a town with heavily fluoridated water. This makes it possible to have conversations in the dentist's office like I did yesterday.
Hygienist: So do you usually see Dr. D or Dr. P?
Me: I have no idea. They zip in here, poke around and leave. I don't know the dentists here, I know the hygienists.
Hygienist: That's a good thing.
Semi-tongue-in-cheek grats for today: I'm grateful that not quite my entire online experience depends on LJ. It is apparently back up ... mostly. I can't access it. (It'll be interesting to see if this xposts from DW.) But I'm not in total internet withdrawal. :-D
Re: LJ, the_lj_refuge on IJ has been updating as new info becomes available. I don't know if there's an equivalent on DW. According to the status page, LiveJournal has been under a DDoS attack since Thursday, August 6th. A DDoS attack is focused heavy traffic in an attempt to make the site unavailable; not an attempt to gain access to anyone's account or personal information. We have taken steps to filter this traffic so that the site can remain accessible.
The site is running normally for most users at this time. Because of the mitigation procedures required to keep the site up and running, however, some users may not be able to access the site or post entries or comments from some locations and browsers. This is not account-specific, and you may be able to access the site from a different computer or network.
Our Operations staff will continue to monitor the situation and take appropriate actions in order to ensure the continued health of the site. Additional updates will be posted in lj_maintenance.
There's also a picture of a very annoyed Scotty direly in need of a caption along the lines of, "I'm doing my best, cap'n. I canna break the laws ofphysics stupid DDoS attacks." Or, you know, something wittier.
It's particularly amusing that they say to go to an LJ comm for updates, when the problem is an inability to access LJ. *facepalm*
Again, grateful for the non-withdrawal. Though, of course, I should really be sleeping.
Hygienist: So do you usually see Dr. D or Dr. P?
Me: I have no idea. They zip in here, poke around and leave. I don't know the dentists here, I know the hygienists.
Hygienist: That's a good thing.
Semi-tongue-in-cheek grats for today: I'm grateful that not quite my entire online experience depends on LJ. It is apparently back up ... mostly. I can't access it. (It'll be interesting to see if this xposts from DW.) But I'm not in total internet withdrawal. :-D
Re: LJ, the_lj_refuge on IJ has been updating as new info becomes available. I don't know if there's an equivalent on DW. According to the status page, LiveJournal has been under a DDoS attack since Thursday, August 6th. A DDoS attack is focused heavy traffic in an attempt to make the site unavailable; not an attempt to gain access to anyone's account or personal information. We have taken steps to filter this traffic so that the site can remain accessible.
The site is running normally for most users at this time. Because of the mitigation procedures required to keep the site up and running, however, some users may not be able to access the site or post entries or comments from some locations and browsers. This is not account-specific, and you may be able to access the site from a different computer or network.
Our Operations staff will continue to monitor the situation and take appropriate actions in order to ensure the continued health of the site. Additional updates will be posted in lj_maintenance.
There's also a picture of a very annoyed Scotty direly in need of a caption along the lines of, "I'm doing my best, cap'n. I canna break the laws of
It's particularly amusing that they say to go to an LJ comm for updates, when the problem is an inability to access LJ. *facepalm*
Again, grateful for the non-withdrawal. Though, of course, I should really be sleeping.
