is nexus down? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:35 pm

i wanted to go to nexus and it wont load, is it down?

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:22 pm

Seems so. I've been trying to download something from TES Nexus the whole day and had no luck.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:22 pm

They got brought down by a hacker.

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:38 pm

They got brought down by a hacker.

source?

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:51 pm

source?

Yep, DDoS attack:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /home/vegas/public_html/includes/mysql.php on line 25The forum MySQL database is currently down. This problem normally sorts itself very quickly. Please come back a little later.

The too many connections part is what makes me believe it's that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

That's the error I got after refreshing the Nexus for a bit.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:39 pm

why would anyone attack nexus?

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:25 am

why would anyone attack nexus?

Too many possible answers; Some people just have grudges is all.

Just wait it out. There really isn't much we can do besides that.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:10 pm

well this is special

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:58 pm

why would anyone attack nexus?

The staff there aren't exactly the friendliest of people... but that's no reason to hack the site.

» Sat May 28, 2011 10:04 pm

There was a news item a week or so ago about a script kiddy who threw a tantrum when he got banned and DDosed Nexus. Presumably he's found a way around their protections.

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:41 am

some people have too much freetime.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:24 pm

And they say that spanking your children is a bad thing........ :homestar:

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:55 am

Hacked? Some people really do have no outside life.

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:39 pm

Why doesn't this surprise me? What, does the person, or group for that matter, think that a DDos attack will garner them their accounts back, or make anything better? I don't know if this is possible, but maybe there is someway to track the source of the attack, and bring legal suit against them?

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:37 pm

Why doesn't this surprise me? What, does the person, or group for that matter, think that a DDos attack will garner them their accounts back, or make anything better? I don't know if this is possible, but maybe there is someway to track the source of the attack, and bring legal suit against them?

some of the times to bring sites like that down you need multiple people to do a DDos attack

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:10 pm

It should be back up right now btw. Some users, including me, have been able to load pages successfully without fail.

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:16 pm

It should be back up right now btw. Some users, including me, have been able to load pages successfully without fail.

Yes it is up for me too now, thanks for the news!

» Sun May 29, 2011 2:05 am

It should be back up right now btw. Some users, including me, have been able to load pages successfully without fail.

<3

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:18 pm

some of the times to bring sites like that down you need multiple people to do a DDos attack

or a botnet.

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:21 pm

Threads like this give those script kiddie brats the attention that they don't deserve.
If it's the same guy he'll be bragging and posturing all over his twitter page about it,
let it stay there, that way he can be a "Legend in his own Mind"