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Anyone else having real problems accessing these forums and/or the main PB site?

Yep. I wasn't able to access the forums for hours. Just managed to do so 1 minute ago. So I hope the problem is fixed now.

Regards, Little John

The whole server is under-attack, prepare your weapons !

Fred wrote:The whole server is under-attack, prepare your weapons !

I have a dead parrot to ward off any attack! A quick slap around the chops with that festering thing should do the trick!

I figured it might some kind of dos attack as the server was/is refusing HTTP requests.

Fred wrote:The whole server is under-attack, prepare your weapons !

beware ~ V ~

Same here, had problems for hours trying to access the forums Is it under attack, or is it the .eu version that is
the problem?

A compiler cross platform, with x86/x64 support, a very affordable price, a friendly license and getting some interest from people currently using other basic compilers (win only or 32 bit only) ?

I guess a DOS attack from time to time has to be expected !

But I'm sure I'm wrong.

It's a quite serious one, more than 500 computers are flooding the server.

Would it make any difference or does it help if we didn't try to call the forums - reducing some of the demands or traffic ?

Eugene Kaspersky is right, everyone should have an internett passport to access the net, so that every individual
is identified. Just like you need a licenceplate and a drivers licence for your car.

I think he is a former KGB, and probably knows what he talks about, and those asshole criminals who are all
over the place can go kiss themselves goodbye.

Fred wrote:It's a quite serious one, more than 500 computers are flooding the server.

Fred, I don't know if you have actually access to your own server or if the server is hosted at your provider... anyway can you see if the attack is coming from a geographically restricted region ?

Or if it's coming from all around the globe ? Maybe through zombies ? Are the IP reals or spoofed addresses ? I believe some CISCO routers can automatically drop the traffic coming from spoofed addresses...

Is a classical ICMP flood with large data packets ?

Hope you guys will not need to confront yourself with this problem too ! Another time consuming activity... but maybe that's the idea behind this

luis wrote:A compiler cross platform, with x86/x64 support, a very affordable price, a friendly license and getting some interest from people currently using other basic compilers (win only or 32 bit only) ?

Yes, funny how it happens a day after Fred locked the PowerBasic thread.

Please stop speculating, we know nothing about it.

Regardles, it appears we're back in business!

Pfew. Needed my fix.

Edit: nah, it isn't reliable... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...

First time I've been able to access purebasic anything for 8 hours...