Where are all the posts from today?

RB

RB wrote:

Where are all the posts from today?

No prob on this news server.


Graham

Pooh Bear wrote:

RB wrote:

Where are all the posts from today?

No prob on this news server.

Graham

I would have sent him a note, but his email address was anonymous.
Hmm. So for RB: If you can read this, you know the answer to your
question.

In article writes:

Where are all the posts from today?

The system that hosts my news and e-mail was under a "denial of
service" attack on Monday. Someone released a few million junk e-mail
messages to bogus addresses, with a bogus "from" address at
d-and-d.com. Just about every one generated a "bounce" message that
came back to d-and-d.com, flooding the system and not letting the
normal flow of traffic through.

It's possible that this was an attack to several domains, not just
one. That would slow the flow of news down at many points.



--
I'm really Mike Rivers - )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In article znr1070458448k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes:

Where are all the posts from today?

The system that hosts my news and e-mail was under a "denial of
service" attack on Monday. Someone released a few million junk e-mail
messages to bogus addresses, with a bogus "from" address at
d-and-d.com. Just about every one generated a "bounce" message that
came back to d-and-d.com, flooding the system and not letting the
normal flow of traffic through.

This happens on a weekly basis here, and it has become part of the normal
cost of doing business. But it shouldn't affect Usenet at all. Usenet is
amazingly well distributed, and runs mostly on machines that only act as
nntp servers these days, now that hardware is cheap.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

It was really strange and something I'd not experienced before. I would
reset the group, then re-download all available headers, but the most recent
headers available were from December 2nd. I repeated this procedure for 2
days with the same result. I tried every avenue of tech support with my ISP
(RoadRunner) and, with persistance, resolved the problem. As it turns out,
RoadRunner did some maintenance on their news server which, apparently, got
the newsgroups out of sync with my news reader (OE6).

RB

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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In article znr1070458448k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article
writes:

Where are all the posts from today?

The system that hosts my news and e-mail was under a "denial of
service" attack on Monday. Someone released a few million junk e-mail
messages to bogus addresses, with a bogus "from" address at
d-and-d.com. Just about every one generated a "bounce" message that
came back to d-and-d.com, flooding the system and not letting the
normal flow of traffic through.

This happens on a weekly basis here, and it has become part of the normal
cost of doing business. But it shouldn't affect Usenet at all. Usenet is
amazingly well distributed, and runs mostly on machines that only act as
nntp servers these days, now that hardware is cheap.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."