Down outage

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  northharbourvets · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 10:45 pm

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  I’m in Auckland New Zealand and cannot access my blog. Complete outage for more than two days. Help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 11:23 pm

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  Please post the URL for the blog in question starting with http:// so we can help you.

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  dannevirkelibrarian · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 11:42 pm

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  I am having the same problem for my three blogs…

  http://randomruminationsandponderings.wordpress.com/
  http://diligentroom.wordpress.com/

  And my blog with my own url http://michaeljparry.com/

  All three won’t load

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 11:45 pm

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  @dannevirkelibrarian
  The good news is all data is safe. I can view all 3 logs here in Canada.
  Please contact Staff using this link. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 11:46 pm

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  OOPS! I’m experiencing rolling power blackouts again. Here’s the correct link for contacting Staff http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  dannevirkelibrarian · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 11:52 pm

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  Thanks. I have done that.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 11:56 pm

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  I know you must be frustrated because I would be, but I also know that Staff will get back to you as soon as they can. Please be patient. :)

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  gdy2shoez · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 12:02 am

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  Same here from Singapore. Haven’t been able to log in for past 12 hours. WordPress Home page seems OK but random individual blogs don’t seem to work.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 am

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  @gdy2shoez
  The wordpress.com site was under continuous series of DDOS attacks yesterday and previous to that that were not trivial in nature. Staff had a heck of a job before them but they accomplished putting blocks in place. Please use the link above and contact them about gaining access to your own blog.

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  northharbourvets · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 12:14 am

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  Maybe it’s a *regional* thing? (Auckland, New Zealand)
  My blog http://northharbourvets.wordpress.com is still out of commission.
  Happy Days.

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  shoreacres · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 12:16 am

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  @northharbourvets ~ Here in Texas, I can see your blog just fine.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 12:25 am

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  Yes, it’s a regional thing. It’s particularly bad in Singapore and Indonesia. Apparently also in Australia.
  And Russia. I was in a chat room and I suddenly saw ALL the Russian people quit at the same second. Like, forty of them. That was a rare opportunity to actually WATCH the internet go down.

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  xpinger · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 1:48 am

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  Unable to access my blogs for over 24 hours now (Rotorua NZ)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 1:51 am

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  I’m sorry that your access was negatively affected. Please contact Staff using this link. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  limberation · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 2:06 am

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  @TT – I’m just wondering – the techo in me – but this DDoS attack seems to coincide with the dramactic increase in spam referrer activity. I’ve not seen the sort of activity I am seeing with those before at it seems they started at around the same time. Is it not quite curious to get multiple hits (20 – 40) from the same spam referrer? Or was I just lucky before?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 2:09 am

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  @teamoyeniyi
  I don’t know. If I did know then I would be aware this is a public forum and that means the hackers are probably tuned right in to everything said here, you know?

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  limberation · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 2:22 am

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  @TT – yes, but they’d also already know the answer to my question! :)) Hackers are weird people anyway – I’ve never understood the mentality required. Maybe I am too old! I probably just upset them some more. :((

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 3:56 am

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  I’ve never understood the mentality required. — Me neither … shrug

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 4:20 am

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  Did you know that way back in the birth of the computer to be called a “Hacker” was a supreme compliment – a title bestowed by your peers for doing something that had not been done before or a real clever way to do something.

  Read Hackers by Steven Levy (I think I got the last name right) – the first Hackers came from MIT and the Switches and Power supply sub committee of the Model Railroad Club.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 4:24 am

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  Let’s just take the hacker/cracker issue offline, shall we? It doesn’t appear relevant to WP.com.