Official Zooomr Launch Slightly Delayed
Life Sucks When You’re Under a DOS AttackHosted on Zooomr
Well I suppose it serves us right for running a countdown timer to our launch at 5pm today, but Zooomr has been under a massive denial of service (DOS) attack all day and it has forced us to delay our launch by a few hours or so. We think we will have it up and running at 7pm Pacific Daylight Time assuming we can clear up this vicious attack.
July 14th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
:/ How much are they shooting your way, traffic wise? A few mbit/s?
July 14th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Or is it just a lot of interest?!
I’m afraid I’m going to miss the launch - am in the UK, and roughly 0300 is a little late for me tonight!
Good luck, and see you in the morning…
July 14th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Why’s someone always gotta be a clown? Don’t worry, Zooomr. We’ll be waiting patiently for ya.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Am I allowed to post my screen shot of the stopped countdown clock to my zooomr 2.0 account or can I only load photos? Oooops, no that’s a rival service restriction
July 14th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
It’s not really sending us any data it’s just opening connections.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Maybe we could kill the time looking at Jill Greenburg collections (only kidding Thomas - I am equally appalled by her photos). Then again, if she could do the same theme with the people responsible for your DOS!
July 14th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Hmm I was gonna say, maybe it’s all of us sitting here hitting refresh waiting for it to come online
July 14th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I wish Mark, it’s been happening all day long.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Damn those bitter spiteful arseholes! Hope all goes well with sorting it out
July 14th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Bastards…… well they can’t keep us down, good luck and keep up the great work!!!
July 14th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Good luck guys, hope it goes well
July 14th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Why would they send DOS attacks all day long? Why not only up until the launch? Wouldn’t that be more effective?
July 14th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
I may be a bit guilty. I have checked the page many times throughout the day to see if anything was going on.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
July 14th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
@Tomas Hawk:
If that’s the problem and it’s on port 80. Lower your keepalive way down. (in the 3-5 range) That helps a lot.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
[…] Update: Apparently Zooomr has been under an denial of service attack all day. Thomas Hawk says they should be up and running by 7pm. […]
July 14th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Well, I’m not going to wait up any longer [yes I stayed up till 0130 waiting for Zooomr to come back up, am I sad, or what? :)]
Night folks: Kris, Michael & Thomas - good luck getting it all sorted out, and look forward to hopping on in the morning.
July 14th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Maybe it’s FlickR, those guys are out to get you, I tell ya (Well technically Zooomr is, but you know what I mean).
I’m not familiar with DOS and stuff of the sort, but cant you guys just check the IP and ban it or something.
July 14th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Sohil, the IP addresses are being spoofed. Whoever’s attacking us is very powerful and they are sending the attack from zombie machines.
July 14th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
@ Thomas:
Is there anything that can be done? And what are DOS attacks capable of?
July 14th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
So Sorry to hear that, I wish you all the best (I’ll check the site again tomorrow)
July 14th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Israeli hackers?
July 14th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
@Boo:
DOS == Denial Of Service. All it does is flood the server with requests so that regular ones can’t come in.
July 14th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
[…] Wurde also doch nichts aus dem groß angekündigten Launch von Version 2.0 des Flickr-Konkurrenten: Well I suppose it serves us right for running a countdown timer to our launch at 5pm today, but Zooomr has been under a massive denial of service (DOS) attack all day and it has forced us to delay our launch by a few hours or so. We think we will have it up and running at 7pm Pacific Daylight Time assuming we can clear up this vicious attack. […]
July 14th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
@Boo
DOS means Denial Of Service. I think DOS attacks knock out serves or something. This was what I think BlueFrog did to Spammers and Spammers did the same thing to shut BlueFrog.
More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service
July 14th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
I wonder how you can have the blog photos, the countdown site and the blog running while suffering from a DDOS?
Port 80 is still port 80, right? And both of your IP addresses seem to serve content…
Are you sure, you’re not experiencing some other sort of problem? Tell me, if you need a hand…
July 14th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
There are people who are willing and ready to go if the help is needed. Just say the word. :\
July 14th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
@yeah
You are right, it looks strange.
I think they just didn’t stress test their new code
Poor kids…
July 14th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Please take 5 minutes and trim those fingernails.
July 14th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Yes, I hate those DOS attacks. Second only to the dreaded Windows attacks. When those suckers hit your hosts, you might as well just throw them out the window and start over.
Now DDoS attacks - that’s another story entirely!
Seriously though, good luck shutting it down - hope your upstream provider’s being helpful. Maybe they can take it off your hands so you can finish up the launch instead?
-/\/
July 14th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
[…] Well, it sucks. I was hoping that tonight I would be able to test out the whole new Zooomr launch and explore the uber goodness that was suppose to be launched earlier tonight at 5pm (PDT). But unfortunately that’s not going to happen according to the Zooomr crew. It seems that many sites are being hacked tonight, in fact. I had received an email earlier from Game Zone | Evolution from someone who was able to crack their vBulletin database. […]
July 14th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
What is the deal with those long ass fingernails on Kris the genius?
July 14th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
noticed that too ? weird. clean up!
July 14th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Have you called the FBI to report the DOS attack, or did you make it up?
DOS attack, really?
Show us some proof
July 15th, 2006 at 9:38 am
What does a dude’s fingernails have to do with his ability to code? I mean he got a web startup to contend with Yahoo!’s Flickr service, and he at least has tact with public relations.
You sit behind anonymity and throw rude comments on a privately owned blog that no adult would ever conceive of saying to another adult out of common decency. What’s your contribution, you Mr. Helpfuls and Thing-For-Yourselfers?
July 15th, 2006 at 11:16 am
^^ Well said, Spinfist!
July 15th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Well one thing’s for sure… some people have no life so they must piss and moan about whatever insignificant thing they can think of… GET A LIFE…. and on a brighter and much more important note… SOOO looking forward to Zooomr 2.0’s launch and the wait will definitely be worth it!! Thanx Kris, Michael and Thomas for all the hard work!!
July 15th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
I’m getting so sick of the negative comments here and on the TechCrunch thread. Hang in there Zoomr guys - there are a lott of people looking forward to this 2.0 launch.
July 15th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
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July 15th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Best of luck. It’s really too bad that people are DOSing a truly great sight like Zooomr. I look forward to seeing 2.0.
July 16th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Zooomr attaqué
Je vous parlais dans mon précédent billet du compte à rebours qu’avait imaginé Zooomr pour lancer la nouvelle version de son service de partage et de stockage de photos en ligne. Malheureusement pour eux et pour leurs utilisateurs, le nouveau
July 16th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Not to worry. Carry on… we’ll be here, ready to geo-tag our little hearts out with the new and improved Zooomr2.0 when you’ve fought back the baddies and get back on track with the launch.
July 18th, 2006 at 2:23 am
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July 18th, 2006 at 3:38 am
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July 18th, 2006 at 6:54 am
[…] 新版的Zooomr并没有如期推出，因为有人对其进行了恶意的DOS攻击，原因不详。经过三天三夜的艰苦奋斗，终于在昨天(July 17th)晚些时间正式推出。还是要先祝贺一下这个年轻的团队的。 […]
July 18th, 2006 at 7:52 am
[…] After a bit of technical difficulty, which bumped the release of the new Zooomr platform back a few days (originally planned for Friday, July 14th), Zooomr 2.0 has finally hit the ‘net. I assume this is actually version 2.0 of the beta because the site still redirects (as of Tuesday morning) to the beta.zooomr.com server and the logo still reads “beta.” But then again, since it seems that “beta” is the hot thing in “web 2.0″ trends, so maybe I’m totally wrong. […]
July 18th, 2006 at 8:37 am
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