Sharky7337 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 If someone is port scanning and syn flooding the IP's make sure u set the firewall to not respond on any unecessary ports. I know that might already be done or be obvious. But for what it's worth. Are you renting a server? is there any hardware security or software firewalls etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Fixed the time issue on the server. I think I fixed it in MySQL, but it still is off. Not sure what I need to do to correct it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Not sure what I need to do to correct it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky7337 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Well the back end database change will change past posts however it is probably auto generated as a service running so until u restart the service changes may not be reflected from the database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 So, the Sabrespace IP address seemed to have been under two separate attacks. One was SYN flooding and the other was the standard DoS of sending in so many requests that the server would run out of memory. Every time we rebooted the server would become unresponsive in a minute or two. Host blocked traffic to IP address for me, but had some other issue that took into the morning to resolve on their hardware. The Tank knows no boundaries. Thanks for all you do, Scott! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Look, I admit I'm not a sysadmin. I struggle doing this because every "." counts when setting this **** up. However, I begged my host to just stop incoming traffic to the ip address that was coming in - all of it. They made it sound like they were doing it for me. Rinse and repeat for 2 days. I finally said that I don't want to be associated with that ip address anymore and they finally responded with "Well, it's a part of your config - you would have to change that on your server". No ****. It's what I have been asking them to do for two days. I finally did it myself and things are back to normal (which I couldn't do yesterday because I had zero access). Was this solution so hard to think of and implement? Even a dimwit like me figured it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4BillsintheBurgh Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Look, I admit I'm not a sysadmin. I struggle doing this because every "." counts when setting this **** up. However, I begged my host to just stop incoming traffic to the ip address that was coming in - all of it. They made it sound like they were doing it for me. Rinse and repeat for 2 days. I finally said that I don't want to be associated with that ip address anymore and they finally responded with "Well, it's a part of your config - you would have to change that on your server". No ****. It's what I have been asking them to do for two days. I finally did it myself and things are back to normal (which I couldn't do yesterday because I had zero access). Was this solution so hard to think of and implement? Even a dimwit like me figured it out. Thanks for your effort, it's appreciated. For the time issue, is there another place to set the default timezone? It seems like we're displaying GMT instead of EST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky7337 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Well if I can help you in any way let me know. I worked as a sys admin and currently work for Cisco I went to RIT. Granted I haven't done it for twenty years but I know 8 or so programming languages and and all the server platforms and a lot of networking so if there's anything I can do to help I'm more then willing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Thanks for your effort, it's appreciated. For the time issue, is there another place to set the default timezone? It seems like we're displaying GMT instead of EST. This is what is messed up. I set it for New_York and it was 5 hours off. Very weird. I ask host to look into it. They say they fixed it. Now the time on the server is right but it says "GMT" which is wrong. Neither setting has affected the board time. I restarted apache and set the mysql timezone session variable and neither make a diff either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4BillsintheBurgh Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 This is what is messed up. I set it for New_York and it was 5 hours off. Very weird. I ask host to look into it. They say they fixed it. Now the time on the server is right but it says "GMT" which is wrong. Neither setting has affected the board time. I restarted apache and set the mysql timezone session variable and neither make a diff either. I'm doing some googling to try and determine, but I think the server should be on utc (est) because that is what gets sent back to us. Not 100% on that yet. Will send links to pertinent info if found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 # date Sun Jan 11 11:35:38 GMT 2015 time is right. Time zone is wrong. I can't even comprehend how this got fubar'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4BillsintheBurgh Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) # date Sun Jan 11 11:35:38 GMT 2015 time is right. Time zone is wrong. I can't even comprehend how this got fubar'd. Actually that is wrong. GMT should be 5 hours ahead. That's why when the forum is displaying it on my client it's taking the 11:35 GMT and converting it to 6:35 EST (-5). I assume this should be fixable via the date/time settings. Edit: Sorry, didn't comprehend your post fully. If you can change the timezone via the date/time clock set, what does it do? Edited January 11, 2015 by 4BillsintheBurgh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotAGuy Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I just reset my time setting to GMT and all is right with the world.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInDaDay Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I set it for New_York and it was 5 hours off. Very weird. this Rex Ryan firing / hiring has obviously created a paradoxical shift within the time/space radius that includes the NY/ Buffalo areas. thanks for all your hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Actually that is wrong. GMT should be 5 hours ahead. That's why when the forum is displaying it on my client it's taking the 11:35 GMT and converting it to 6:35 EST (-5). I assume this should be fixable via the date/time settings. My point is that the host changed my timezone to GMT to artificially add 5 hours to the server time, so that the time would appear to be EST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotAGuy Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 This is what is messed up. I set it for New_York and it was 5 hours off. Very weird. I ask host to look into it. They say they fixed it. Now the time on the server is right but it says "GMT" which is wrong. Neither setting has affected the board time. I restarted apache and set the mysql timezone session variable and neither make a diff either. Maybe the server is being controlled in N. Korea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 ntpdate 0.us.pool.ntp.org that fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 ntpdate 0.us.pool.ntp.org that fixed it. Thank you for everything you do for us Scott!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4BillsintheBurgh Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 ntpdate 0.us.pool.ntp.org that fixed it. Cool, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) Thanks, Scott, for everything. It was hell not being able to get on the site as the Rex thing was peaking. I'm sure there are many times when you think, I don't need these headaches. So glad you keep coming back for more. Edited January 11, 2015 by ChevyVanMiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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