Written on March 1st, 2006 at 08:03 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Suffers DoS Attack

ProBlogger Site News 28 comments

Apologies for the downtime here last night – we had a DoS attack aimed at ProBlogger.

It’s nice to feel noticed :-)

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  • Ma2T

    March 1st, 2006 8:26 am

    I noticed!, glad they didn’t do any real damage, great to have the site back online :)

  • Aaron Brazell

    March 1st, 2006 8:32 am

    Is THAT what that was?

  • Brent

    March 1st, 2006 8:35 am

    Congratulations Darren. All they’ve succeeded in doing is proving that you’re a significant enough blog to bother attacking. You must have made it!

  • mark

    March 1st, 2006 9:12 am

    yup, that was fast! I hope you told your host to put in security measures so it doesn’t happen again. :)

  • lavonne

    March 1st, 2006 9:18 am

    Um, forgive the newbie question, but what’s a DoS attack?

  • Rich Miller

    March 1st, 2006 9:23 am

    Any idea what the attack was all about?
    RichM

  • Shane

    March 1st, 2006 9:33 am

    Serves you right for trying to make this site such a great help to so many people. I hope you learned your lesson ;)

  • Andy Merrett

    March 1st, 2006 9:38 am

    lavonne: DoS is a Denial of Service attack, typically where a set of zombie (remotely controlled due to being infected by virus/malware) computers hit one website to either use up its bandwidth or cause the web server to crash or timeout trying to serve too many web requests. Pontentially difficult to stop a DoS attack across many zombie machines because you can’t just block one IP number or range.

  • A1Arcade.com

    March 1st, 2006 9:42 am

    I noticed the down time as well, Darren. Thought you were just experiencing some hosting problems. Good to know you’ve identified the problem and (it looks like) resolved it.

    As Brent said, you know you’re famous when you get this kind of attention. ;)

    Take care

  • Aaron

    March 1st, 2006 10:06 am

    mod_dos is an Apache module that thwarts Denial of Service attacks. Hope the sysadmin takes those precautions.

  • Vlad

    March 1st, 2006 11:32 am

    Oh, whew. I thought the site shut down or something. I visit it every day and I was surprised that it wasn’t working.

  • Duncan

    March 1st, 2006 12:11 pm

    You know you’ve made it when you’ve suffered a DOS :-)
    Hope your host is being supportive, they usually arent.

  • Darren Rowse

    March 1st, 2006 12:23 pm

    Mine is being very supportive – looks like we’re getting there with it.

  • Me

    March 1st, 2006 1:34 pm

    Recently a lot of websites suffer DoS attack, including mine.

  • laughingmachine

    March 1st, 2006 4:02 pm

    I Got Noticed Yesterday But I Thinked That’s My Pc/Internet Problem
    I Hopes DoS Attack Didnt Done Any Damage

  • Blog Network Watch

    March 1st, 2006 4:03 pm

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  • Peter Crawford

    March 1st, 2006 9:22 pm

    I’ve only been reading a couple of weeks,but its a great resource. Darren ,lets hope its the last problem for a long while.Keep up the brilliant work.Cheers!

  • Rian

    March 1st, 2006 11:19 pm

     

    mod_dos is an Apache module that thwarts Denial of Service attacks. Hope the sysadmin takes those precautions.

    mod_dos is all well and good but if you’re experiencing a 40-100Mbit DDOS attack, you’re going to need to look at more drastic measures than Apache modules. :p

  • pcunix

    March 1st, 2006 11:50 pm

    Hmmm.

    Two possibilities: a competitor, or a preparation for extortion.

    Neither one seems likely. Possibly it was accidental? If it was extortion, you’ll be hearing from the s.o.b’s son enough.

  • The Information Bank

    March 2nd, 2006 4:21 am

    huh! i was wondering why i couldn’t read my rss feed of problogger during my lunch break yesterday! darren, that’s an interesting way to to see the DoS attack (getting noticed).

  • anymounous

    March 2nd, 2006 4:37 am

    DDoS Attacks Target Prominent Blogs http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/28/ddos_attacks_target_prominent_blogs.html

  • Reflexiones e irreflexiones

    March 2nd, 2006 9:45 am

    ¿Ataques a bitacoreros famosos?

    Eso cuentan en DDoS Attacks Target Prominent Blogs que vi en Weblogs víctimes d’atacs DDoS. El atacado sería Darren Rowse, que escribe en problogger y que parece que tiene unas cuentas bien saneadas. Él lo cuenta en ProBlogger Suffers DoS Attack u…

  • Leon

    March 3rd, 2006 1:15 am

    So that’s why I couldn’t view the site. I feared the worst…that you actually shut the site down.

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  • Digger

    March 3rd, 2006 6:54 am

    Who the hell would DoS problogger? Man talk about having too much time on your hands.

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    March 5th, 2006 1:55 am

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    March 6th, 2006 9:45 pm

    [...] Australian Darren Rowse confirmed that an outage Monday on his ProBlogger weblog was caused by a DDoS, but provided no details about the attackers or their motives. Rowse gained international attention last year when he revealed that he would make more than $100,000 as a solo blogger in 2005, primarily through earnings from Google AdSense advertising and commissions from affiliate referral programs. [...]

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    March 19th, 2006 7:25 pm

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