FT down?

[thewinchester]

Anyone having problems accessing Flyertalk at the moment? Just tried to access it and getting time out errors, and the usual testing suggests the site is currently dead and offline.

 

[oz_mark]

Been down for a while from my pov.

 

[albatross710]

Not working here on the iPhone.

 

[drewbles]

Was pretty flakey on Friday and now it's not happy at all. looks like she's down, captain!

 

[samh004]

Noticed it was down earlier. Thought it was my Internet briefly but was happy to find that not to be the case. Surprised they're down though. Perhaps it's a DDoS?
Posted via Mobile Device

 

[Mwenenzi]

from a post on View from the Wing Blog Archive While Flyertalk is Down… (one of Randy's site IIRC)

It’s not just FT, it’s Internet Brands. Their site and all the sites they own are down. Must be some pretty big server issues.

 

[Mal]

A post on FT indicated that Network Brands were having big networking issues.

Is that code for DDOS I wonder?

Actually does appear to be DDoS. There's some interesting stuff in this Twitter feed (assuming it's all true) : http://twitter.com/Tomas_ScionLife

Appears to be a Forum owner who is hosted via Internet Brands (or something like that).

 

[Mal]

Seems to be back up now ... but for how long?

 

[tuapekastar]

Seems to be back up now ... but for how long?

Not too long I think Mal..certainly unable to log in at the moment. Whatever problem they had/have, be it malicious or otherwise, is certainly significant.

 

[samh004]

I wonder which site is actually being targeted, and by who. Can't find any news articles yet that list why.

 

[david870mdg]

Well, I was going to raise a thread about this (slightly frustrated), but OP beat me to it.
Problems all day. :shock:

 

[thewinchester]

Suprisingly, FT's official twitter a/c wasn't on my list. They posted the following 15hrs ago, nothing since.

Web site still suffering. Seems to be major backbone problem for Internet Brands, all their web sites are down not just FlyerTalk.

 

[straitman]

There is a previous long running thread on FT being down.

Maybe they should be combined :?:

 

[Mal]

There is also an official announcement now:

FlyerTalk Forums - Announcements in Forum : Qantas Frequent Flyer

Flyertalk has experienced intermittent website outages caused by a cyber-attack. Our troubleshooting team has resolved the issue, and the site should now be functioning normally. We appreciate your patience and understanding, and apologize for the inconvenience caused by this attack.

 

[oz_mark]

Stlii seems down to me!

 

[Mal]

Stlii seems down to me!

Name: flyertalk.com
Address: 67.201.16.68

working fine for me. Perhaps they have a router ACL blacklist or something and your ISP is on it due to the DDos attacks.

 

[auriga]

Me too.....

 

[oz_mark]

hmm:

It's just you.

It's just you. http://www.flyertalk.com is up.

 

[moa999]

still down via TPG.

I assume they have flicked servers and the new IP hasn't filtered through everywhere yet.

 

[tuapekastar]

I certainly can't log onto it...