Site Issue Announcements

moocher on 14/04/2014 - 20:12
Last edited 15/04/2014 - 09:09

This forum topic will contain announcements from the team about any issues that are occuring for the OzBargain website and/or related services.

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  • spackbace on 01/02/2024 - 19:55

    Ooh now getting database errors occasionally, error 2002

  • dirtybird on 01/02/2024 - 20:20

    !$#%
    I must have some script blocking thingamajig because that Cloudflare human verification hates me.
    And now its blocked me on Chrome 121.
    Probably should switch to Firefox full time anyway.

  • tanksinatra on 04/02/2024 - 11:16

    Was experiencing issues yesterday evening with Cloudflare. I'm guessing another DDOS attack?
    I wonder why?

  • mapax on 04/02/2024 - 15:01

    How long was that one? 2 hours or so hours?

    • HamBoi69 on 04/02/2024 - 15:06
      +1

      Yep site was totally down.

    • Moderatorscotty on 04/02/2024 - 15:11

      Yeah almost 2 hours. I think web server ended up using up all the file descriptors and went haywire afterwards. Poor DDoS attacker who even had to work overtime on Sundays.

      • memez on 04/02/2024 - 19:57

        you might have to invest more into DDoS protection. Increase bandwidth.. but i know that aint cheap :P

        • WoodYouLikeSomeCash on 04/02/2024 - 20:35

          Doesn’t help that things such as this can bypass Captcha protection.

        • Moderatorscotty on 04/02/2024 - 20:48

          invest more into DDoS protection

          L7 DDoS protection is not really about increasing bandwidth. It's not UDP or syn flood that saturate your pipe, but creating too many "legitimate-looking" HTTP requests that overloads your webserver and application servers.

          We found CloudFlare with custom WAF rules can block majority of the attacks. However attack vector changes and we too need to change the WAF rules to block those requests. OzBargain might suffer down time during that lag (us updating the WAF rules).

          For "adaptive DDoS protection" from CloudFlare Enterprise — I have no idea how much it would cost as I haven't gotten a quote yet. However from what I have read it could be 4-5 figures a month, i.e. costly comparing to what we currently have.

          • memez on 04/02/2024 - 21:47

            @scotty: hmmm… i have quite a few large client web sites using Bunny CDN, they swear by it and in their opinion much better options than cloudflare at a fraction of the price https://bunny.net/network/ddos-protection/

            • Moderatorscotty on 04/02/2024 - 21:49

              @memez: "Edge WAF" coming soon
              "Bot Detection" coming soon

              I guess they aren't suitable then.

              • memez on 04/02/2024 - 21:51

                @scotty: haha, well future planning :P does not help your situation right now.

  • knuckle8 on 04/02/2024 - 15:16

    Can you put a ban on IPs that arent from Australia? Or those IPs are showing Australia?

    • xoom on 04/02/2024 - 15:25

      And if the botnet smashing the site is here? Then what?

      My guess the attacks are coming from everywhere.

      • knuckle8 on 04/02/2024 - 15:43

        Yeah thats something we dont know.

    • jv on 04/02/2024 - 15:26

      Won’t that exclude everyone?

    • whyisave on 04/02/2024 - 16:13

      Attacks inside Cyberspace aren't as clearcut as that.

      It is not always about the origin, which itself can be spoofed, but what the objective is, eg. depleting bandwidth? stressing a server out? etc. etc.

  • mapax on 25/02/2024 - 08:35
    +1

    Are notifications broken at the moment?

    • HamBoi69 on 25/02/2024 - 11:09

      Noticing this too. Not receiving notifications when someone comments on my deals etc

      • mapax on 25/02/2024 - 13:16

        The only notification I have received today is because I’m subscribed to mitre 10, the WD40 posted by you.

        • HamBoi69 on 25/02/2024 - 15:05

          Prehaps no mods have seen this because of the lack of notifications? @scotty @neil @hamza23

    • Moderatorhamza23 on 25/02/2024 - 17:20

      Thanks. I just came across this now, it seems something is going on with comment notifications. I have let Scotty know privately already, as someone twam'd about it.

      I didn't get notification from @HamBoi69 tag either.

      • HamBoi69 on 25/02/2024 - 18:49
        +1

        Neither then. Oh well, problem fixed, cheers!

    • Moderatorhamza23 on 25/02/2024 - 18:14

      Should be fixed now.

      • mapax on 25/02/2024 - 18:33
        +1

        Yeah all good now, got the notification for your comment.

    • CodeXD on 25/02/2024 - 19:14

      Mine was definitely broken and didn't get this notification

  • Moderatorscotty on 01/04/2024 - 10:20

    We have been having email delivery to iCloud Mail again since 26 March, and we have contacted iCloud Mail Postmaster trying to resolve it.

    If you are using iCloud Mail (even on your own domain), your email address here might get marked with excessive bounce and gets disabled.

    • Moderatorscotty on 02/04/2024 - 09:00

      Twice already iCloud Mail Postmaster has replied:

      We have investigated your report and made appropriate changes

      However nothing appears as changed, and we are still unable to deliver emails to iCloud.

  • Clear on 23/04/2024 - 09:57
    +10

    Anyone else getting constantly logged out across devices today?

  • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 11:35

    Since yesterday I can't upvote deals, the report button is broken and on the right hand side the new deals/forum topics says loading… and never does.

    Firefox v126 on Windows 10.

    • PainToad on 19/05/2024 - 11:37
      +1

      Twix wants a fix.

      • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 11:39

        Yeah I don't know if it's related to the Firefox update or something else.

        • sween64 on 19/05/2024 - 11:53

          Have you tried an alternate browser?

          • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 11:55
            +1

            @sween64: Not yet. I will try later today.

    • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 12:06

      Update: Ctrl + F5 fixed the three things I mentioned. Upvoting comments doesn't work.

      • McFly on 19/05/2024 - 12:53
        +1

        Works for me on 126.

        • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 13:05

          Thanks for the info.

      • Loopholio on 19/05/2024 - 13:01

        Have your tried Firefox without addons? I assume it has something like incognito mode.

        • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 13:03

          Not yet. The only add-on running is an adblocker.

      • Twix on 19/05/2024 - 23:36
        +1

        I can upvote comments after pressing Ctrl + F5 again. Solved.

  • mapax on 30/05/2024 - 14:39

    Are notifications broken/delayed?
    The last one I received was nearly 2 hours ago.

  • Moderatorscrimshaw on 30/05/2024 - 15:27

    Notifications are not being sent

    There is an unidentified issue causing the system to not send any notifications for replies to comments and new comments in subscribed posts.

    The issue started possibly an hour ago.

    • Moderatorscrimshaw on 30/05/2024 - 15:51

      Queue server restarted and notifications should be working now. This also solved a related issue with server being unable to assign images to product tags.

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