AR15.com What happened?

I'm wondering the same thing... I'm buying a gun off a guy from there... I sent him the $$$ yesterday and now I have no way of contacting him...:banghead:

I happens to THR too. A lot.

Damm....Looks like I will have to get some work done today..

i went on the chat server, no explaination there either.

Hardware failure or DoS, I'd put my money on.

What will the kids do? How can they get through a day without talk of zombies or "pie"? Where will they get assurance of the evils of gays and lesbians? Who for gods sakes will call me a fag because I like Ron Paul? OH THE HUMANITY!

Please don't engage in sniping at other forums.

If you don't like those places, don't post there.

Hey, what you got against "pie" or preparing for the oncoming zombie invasion?

You like Ron Paul?! What a f...umm...nevermind.

Edited to add: Just trying to make a joke. Hope I didn't upset anyone.

Does this happen a lot on that forum...? (I just signed up there a month ago)

i'm suspicious that "the man" is responsible. he's always tryin to keep folks down ya know.

Most likely a server or database failure. ARFCOM is a much larger website than THR with a paying membership. They have more resources than THR to fight off DDOS attacks.

I dunno what happened, but I found this place because of it!

I dunno what happened, but I found this place because of it!

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Welcome SevenMaryThree!

Seems to me that the gun forums, in general, are getting hit hard by DoS attacks. THR and APS were, I've heard and I've also heard of others being down for no apparent reason other than possible DoS attacks. Sure would like to find out who is doing this and see them prosecuted, as I'm sure many others would, too.

Sure would like to find out who is doing this and see them prosecuted, as I'm sure many others would, too.

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typically attacks on the scale that can take a large site like that down for this length of time comes from a relatively new form of black market.

merc hackers scan and find vulnerable computers all over the internet. they then take over those computers, and have them all scan and take over more computers. this creates a large "bot net".

this bot net can be used for anything from gathering information to large scale attacks. folks that you think would be legitimate pay for these services. they pay for spy information (like what email address shops for a certain genre of items) or they pay to take down competitors. when they are used in a DoS attack, it's called a distributed (DDoS) attack. they are very hard to defend against, as the attack is not coming from any one specific place.

that's probably what's going on if it's not a hardware failure. it's not just their specific site that's down, it's at least a couple of routers above it...so it's large scale.

an interesting thing to think about if it is an attack, is that ar15.com doesn't really have competition as they aren't primarilly a site that sells anything. they exist more for information. who would have motive to take someone like that out?

I noticed yesterday that the site started slowing down about 1500 AZ time. By 1900 it was out.

Went out all together for me at 1900 or so EST, showed no slowing issues on my end before that.

I'd almost put money on the DoS attack. I've been waiting anxiously for it to return.

an interesting thing to think about if it is an attack, is that ar15.com doesn't really have competition as they aren't primarilly a site that sells anything. they exist more for information. who would have motive to take someone like that out?

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terrorists

>preparing for the oncoming zombie invasion? ...Hope I didn't upset anyone.<

Well, ya upset me! I can't believe you'ld show such racist disregard for the rights of Undead Americans in this day and age!

Ok... sorry, but I couldn't resist...

they exist more for information. who would have motive to take someone like that out?

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http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/faqs/?page=awb

I actually had to do some work today. Too bad there wasn't much to do, it was a very boring day.

Maybe they finally added 1 to many ads to the site causing a whole to be torn in the universe and the entire database was swallowed up. That is my take on it anyhow.