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March 23, 2006

grumble grumble joker.com grumble

You may have been wondering why our site has been intermittently unavailable for the last few days. If you're a diligent user, you would have noticed on the main page how it says to check out http://status.cementhorizon.com/ to find out what's going on.

Turns out our DNS providers problems are real, I'm not losing my mind. Here's what they wrote me back (after emailing the 3 times in 4 days).

Dear Sir/Madam, 
 
thank you for your email. 
 
Unfortunately there is a DDOS Attack on Joker.com Nameservers. 
 
Joker.com currently experiences extremely massive distributed denial
 of service attacks against nameservers. 
 
This affects the DNS resolution of Joker.com itself, and also domains 
which use the Joker.com nameservers. 
 
We condemn this attack on the sharpest, at the same time our network
 department works very hard and does everything in order to achieve a 
permanent solution. 
 
We are very sorry about this incident and for any inconvenience this 
may have caused. 
 
Thank you for your understanding and with best regards, 
 
your Joker.com team

Posted by gene_wood at March 23, 2006 04:42 PM

Comments

dude, who's taking care of us while you're gone?

Posted by: michele [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 23, 2006 05:07 PM

It's like a DVDADOS attack if you ask me.

Posted by: sean at March 23, 2006 05:24 PM

c'mon, michele, the fine folks at joker.com condemn this attack on the sharpest. we'll be fine.

Posted by: didofoot at March 24, 2006 08:45 AM

maybe if they'd said "sharpie" i'd be more at ease. i could totally get behind condemning those smelly pens.

Posted by: michele [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 24, 2006 09:54 AM

Michele, if you're not with www.joker.com, you're with the terrorists.

Posted by: sean at March 24, 2006 10:08 AM

sean, www.joker.com is no joking matter.

Posted by: didofoot at March 24, 2006 12:00 PM

See, Gene? I TOLD you you should have gone with www.mrfreeze.com.

Posted by: holohan at March 24, 2006 12:09 PM

I wonder which Joker. Cesar Romero? Jack Nicholson? Mark Hamill?

Since the issue is inconsistent performance, I'm guessing Mark Hamill. Goddamned giggling fool.

Posted by: Dianna at March 25, 2006 11:32 AM

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