ZacFields
03-31-2007, 11:23 AM
Hello To All,
I figured I would update everyone on the current condition of CR:U. First I'll have you know that I came very close to some rash decisions in the last couple days, including wiping out CR:U completely and saving my money and time. This was because over the last couple days I had been staying up til 5am, and spending my ENTIRE days trying to deal with our recent hacker issue. I was getting tired of messing with it and getting basically nowhere...and as I said I came very close to completely scrapping the site.
Ty (a good friend of mine that has always been willing to help me with these problems) and I continued working on it, though. Ty was working on it all night and I was working on it all day. So we were essentially under construction 24 hours a day since about sunday.
It's been a long week... but here is the final results:
Hackers
There were 4 of them. To gain access to the site they used several hundred web servers that they had already hacked into. This is why a few of you may have gotten banned recently on accident. I was trying to keep up with all the IP's they were hitting me from and accidentally banned a few legitimate users. The hackers have been gone since about Monday, but ever since then up until yesterday they were still hitting me with DDOS attacks with several hundred IP addresses.
USER IP's being banned
As I said a moment ago I was trying to ban IP addresses that were attacking us and not legitimate users. I believe, however, that I have fixed the problem and everyone should be accounted for now. If anyone tells you (starting now) that their IP is banned, have them email their IP address to me at owner@crunderground.com and make sure they know we don't need their computer's IP we need their router's IP.
Foreign IP's being banned
This morning I blocked all international IP ranges with the exception of the IP ranges that SandMansSI has posted from in Australia. CR:U is now an internet "fortress of America." I decided that nobody outside the US really needs access to CR:U anyways because 90% of them just want to hack.
Search engine spiders banned
This one really kills me to do, but the search engines are killing our page load times. I like that people can access information on CR:U from the internet but I just can't allow them in anymore. They ignore parts of the robots.txt file which restricts them from doing things like searching the forums (which is very resource consuming). They are now restricted from entering the site.
So essentially, now we have a CR:U just for you guys. We're still available on search results but within a few months we'll start to drop off there. So the only people accessing this site should be people from iowa and people who heard about the site from us.
Now I'm going to get some rest. I hope that answers all of your questions.
Zac
I figured I would update everyone on the current condition of CR:U. First I'll have you know that I came very close to some rash decisions in the last couple days, including wiping out CR:U completely and saving my money and time. This was because over the last couple days I had been staying up til 5am, and spending my ENTIRE days trying to deal with our recent hacker issue. I was getting tired of messing with it and getting basically nowhere...and as I said I came very close to completely scrapping the site.
Ty (a good friend of mine that has always been willing to help me with these problems) and I continued working on it, though. Ty was working on it all night and I was working on it all day. So we were essentially under construction 24 hours a day since about sunday.
It's been a long week... but here is the final results:
Hackers
There were 4 of them. To gain access to the site they used several hundred web servers that they had already hacked into. This is why a few of you may have gotten banned recently on accident. I was trying to keep up with all the IP's they were hitting me from and accidentally banned a few legitimate users. The hackers have been gone since about Monday, but ever since then up until yesterday they were still hitting me with DDOS attacks with several hundred IP addresses.
USER IP's being banned
As I said a moment ago I was trying to ban IP addresses that were attacking us and not legitimate users. I believe, however, that I have fixed the problem and everyone should be accounted for now. If anyone tells you (starting now) that their IP is banned, have them email their IP address to me at owner@crunderground.com and make sure they know we don't need their computer's IP we need their router's IP.
Foreign IP's being banned
This morning I blocked all international IP ranges with the exception of the IP ranges that SandMansSI has posted from in Australia. CR:U is now an internet "fortress of America." I decided that nobody outside the US really needs access to CR:U anyways because 90% of them just want to hack.
Search engine spiders banned
This one really kills me to do, but the search engines are killing our page load times. I like that people can access information on CR:U from the internet but I just can't allow them in anymore. They ignore parts of the robots.txt file which restricts them from doing things like searching the forums (which is very resource consuming). They are now restricted from entering the site.
So essentially, now we have a CR:U just for you guys. We're still available on search results but within a few months we'll start to drop off there. So the only people accessing this site should be people from iowa and people who heard about the site from us.
Now I'm going to get some rest. I hope that answers all of your questions.
Zac