toothandnail Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 (edited) Anybody else having trouble logging into Practiscore? Been having trouble logging in all day, got in once, then it quit again. Edited February 12, 2015 by toothandnail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trouble Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 yeah. I am getting the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 They reported on Facebook that the web site was under a Denial of Service attack but they're dealing with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothandnail Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 (edited) It's back this morning, maybe it's my connection, but it seems way faster than anytime the last week or so. ETA; I no more typed that, than tried to approve a new shooter- it's down again. I'm getting concerned , what are we supposed to do if this happens on match day or, as in this case several days ? ? ? Edited February 12, 2015 by toothandnail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgnoyes Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) I'll take the liberty of re-posting Ken Nelson's Practiscore Facebook update from last night around 10 p.m. We've finished the upgrades we've put in place to make the system more resistant to DDOS attacks. We don't know why we were targeted, or if it was anything other than an automatic sniffer thinking there was something to be accomplished at our domain. We were never actually down by the DDOS, we (and initially our cloud provider) took the system down a few times to do various checks and upgrades once we realized the scale of the assault and nature of the attacks. The final outage, since remedied, was actually due to an error in DNS settings on the final upgrade. It worked, til the "time to live" setting on DNS servers around the world started expiring and grabbing bad info. We fixed it and within an hour most system will have refreshed to the new, correct, settings. On a Mac you can make this quicker in a terminal by this command: sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches On Windows: http://www.wikihow.com/Refresh-DNS On Linux... you are probably smart enough to sort it out yourself! On tablets/smart phones... you will need to wait an hour as the only way I'm aware of is to reset your network settings and that isn't worth saving an hour. This sort of sucked, but at the end the resulting system is stronger. Regards, Ken N. Edited February 13, 2015 by wgnoyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogusNogus Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 down again for hours let me guess they didnt get taken down. they took it down for security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmcqueen Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I still can't access PS sunday morning, is it still down or is it my computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoganbillJ Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I got on it no problem yesterday morning. Didnt check today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkreutz Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I was able to get on this morning, it's been spotty the last few days though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdphotoguy Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Appears to unavailable again. Really getting tired of hackers pulling stunts like DoS attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogusNogus Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Practiscore à nouveau . Quel est ce qui se passe pendant ressortissants ? Practiscore again down. What is this happens during nationals ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgnoyes Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) They would upload to USPSA.org either way as well as ps.com Update from Practiscore on FB: The site is up right now. We are moving to another cloud provider. Our current one... keeps taking us offline because the DDOS attack on us is impacting other customers of theirs. ... I'm not sure how long, we are working feverishly on it. No data will be lost on the migration. Edited February 16, 2015 by wgnoyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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