Mind the old Threads

[HarvesteR]

Hi,

Just a quick reminder to everyone, because of the recent forum outage, there are going to be many old threads going about, talking about potentially outdated things. Pay them no mind, they'll go away if you ignore them.

Cheers

Edited April 18, 2013 by HarvesteR

[Holo]

Aw man, I'm back to being a curious george

[Kosmo-not]

I know that we've been sent back in time a bit, so I just want to say this to everyone:

Please no screwing with the timeline! It might be tempting to take advantage of this fact and get some lottery tickets, but you might be ripping a hole in space-time.

[Moustachauve]

Thank you for your work, We will repopulate the forum with newer post !

[HarvesteR]

Aw man, I'm back to being a curious george

We're disabling that system for the time being. We didn't think that would be a lot of fun to go through again. Should have been down already, but we're on it.

Cheers

[HeWhoWishesForPower]

Well.. At least the forums at back!

[jbard]

This is why you never buy forum hosting from Kerbals. Duct tape and chewing gum can only hold up for so long!

[Ted]

For those that would like to get old posts back:

From a user:

"You can tell the users to re-post some of the threads using google cache, you can type this - site:forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com

It will show all the pages that are indexed on google, each with a date."

Thanks!

-DR KSP CM

[ilikemoneygreen]

For some reason my last post had to be approved by the moderator. im guessing it is treating me as a new user as well?

[Giggleplex777]

I lost all my rep.

[Fel]

So because "Harmless 'Protested to be Constitutionally Protected' DDoS Attacks" wreaked havoc upon your server, 6 months of data was lost... and the costs to repair the damaged server.

Meh; these kids need to grow up. [i can only imagine how bad it could have been had the store database been wiped out instead... and how could we verify that we had purchased the alpha?]

[Bekiekutmoar]

I'm looking forward to the 0.18 update. Maybe it'll be released in the last days of november 2012.

Btw, I've got some ideas for new planets; a dwarf planet called Dres with a notable deep canyon just south of its equator, and perhaps a small and icy planet beyond Jool. What name would be nice ... ? Ella? Eli? Nah ... I'd go for Eeloo.

[ilikemoneygreen]

I lost all my rep.

I just gave you rep, its practically nothing but its better then before.

[Erixxxx]

I thought I had made enough posts before October to not need approval anymore. Guess I was wrong.

[Simplicity]

I lost all my rep.

From what I been reading there a hell of a lot of people in the same boat, ohwell, back to getting things running smoothly again for all of us

[Moustachauve]

We just have to earn it back the hard way

[CtrlAltEL1TE]

Heh old account but never really posted back then

[Brotoro]

I lost all my rep.

Ah, but I remember what I gave you a reputation boost for before (telling me about the "struts-kill-decoupler-force" bug)...so have it again, sir!

[CobraA1]

I'm actually curious to know how a DDoS attack actually damages data. Sure, it saturates the network bandwidth and prevents communication - but why should that actually damage the data on the drives?

[3_bit]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I would honestly not mind too much had the KSPSP been wiped out (well, at least to an early backup) as well. It's really a mess and it is overdue for some time in the orbital drydock.

[swiftgates24]

I wanna mess with the timeline though I could bet $500 dollars on the exact changelog for .18 and .19!

[Fel]

I'm actually curious to know how a DDoS attack actually damages data. Sure, it saturates the network bandwidth and prevents communication - but why should that actually damage the data on the drives?

That is fairly easy to explain.

Most server software probably would cache a repeatedly requested document, so by repeatedly requesting something different you keep the server busy as it keeps fetching and caching "junk."

If your server software isn't careful, you can easily fill up the read/write buffer on the hard-drive... and if it overflows, what happens depends on the manufacturer I would say. Most likely bad data will be written in random places. Of course, we're also talking about a mechanical device that is being requested to perform far more reads / writes than it is advised for; so in addition to the overflow attack, you could have mechanical problems develop.

Keep this up over several trillion iterations and you can have some serious problems develop.

[gmpd2000]

Wait, That means i have less posts?

EDIT: OH NOOOOOOO. I lost 100 posts!

EDIT 2: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I LOST MY REP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited April 26, 2013 by gmpd2000

[TooManyErrors]

I don't think this thread has much purpose being a sticky anyore. Shouldn't it have been removed as a sticky by now?

And gmpd2000, you should be happy you didn't lose 300+ posts, 2+ rep, and your entire account.

Edited April 29, 2013 by TooManyErrors

[-RanZ-]

wow.. back to 1 post and all my history is gone. Can't believe you don't test backups, I sure hope your store backed up is working so in the case you have an issue with that database your paying customers don't lose out on their purchase.