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Database Error

Discussion in 'Site Related Support' started by SlytherinSupreme, Sep 7, 2012.

  1. SlytherinSupreme

    SlytherinSupreme First Year

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    I was just curious what happened to DLP earlier when the site was down. When trying to access the site IE showed that there was a Database Error. It's fixed obviously, but I'm still curious...curious...
     
  2. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Very possible it'll still go down.

    Spambots.
     
  3. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    We're underattack from all our past enemies.

    Mugglenet.

    GinnyPotter.

    PottersPlace.
     
  4. Innomine

    Innomine Alchemist ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Aaah, I noticed it was down all morning for me. I also noted the flood of spambots in the last few days.

    Hope all goes well. I miss DLP when it isn't here.
     
  5. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    Thumbs Up if you kept "forgetting" that it was down and constantly trying to open it in your browser every few minutes for over an hour.
     
  6. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I was at work and unable to work on DLP. If it goes down again, I'll be able to spend time tomorrow.
     
  7. Anarchy

    Anarchy Half-Blood Prince DLP Supporter

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    It's the ghost of Blaise haunting the servers.
     
  8. Castiel

    Castiel Headmaster

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    /inb4 this ain't youtube.

    According to Sree on facebook someone named Rob and Klael are taking revenge for something I have no idea about.

    Gambit and Taure might be in league with them.
     
  9. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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  10. H_A_Greene

    H_A_Greene Unspeakable –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I went nuts trying to figure out what was wrong with this place last night. I pissed away the morning and afternoon and finally tried to access it about 8:30 PM to do my daily 500 Club entry.

    Just glad DLP is up and running again today.
     
  11. yak

    yak Moderator DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    You could have saved yourself the drama with one minute on IRC.
     
  12. H_A_Greene

    H_A_Greene Unspeakable –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    Was it working for you? Because I couldn't find the fucking login link, guy. I don't use IRC unless it's to discuss a mafia game most of the time.
     
  13. yak

    yak Moderator DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    irc.darklordpotter.net never missed a beat. There's no need to login to it, just connect with an irc client [eg. mIRC] and you're in. Too easy.

    If you want to use a website for IRC, then I think Mibbit and IRCCloud are the most popular.
     
  14. H_A_Greene

    H_A_Greene Unspeakable –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    Alright, thanks for the heads up.
     
  15. JenosIdanian

    JenosIdanian Professor DLP Supporter

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    I kept having flashbacks to the days of portkey.org and sloughing through the 100,000+ sections of ff.net. :eek:
     
  16. Inquisition

    Inquisition Canadian Ambassador to Japan DLP Supporter

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  17. Dark Minion

    Dark Minion Bright Henchman DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Probably to mark us as a target.

    He should be banned for High Treason.


    The next time I have to permatempbann dozens of spambots, I might accidentally slip his name in.
    :p
     
  18. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    What the flying fuck Taure.
     
  19. Innomine

    Innomine Alchemist ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Can someone explain the significance of that to me please? What exactly is so bad about it? I don't really even know what I'm looking at.
     
  20. Dark Minion

    Dark Minion Bright Henchman DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    It's a screenshot of our social groups list.

    Spambots created a dozend groups and filled them up with 10-thousands of threads - per group. As the creation of threads happened within very short time, the database ran out of connections.

    There had been two more attempts at this, but we were able to ban the bots before they started to fill the groups.
     
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