nihontoclub.com not reachable any more

[cisco-san]

Hello,

 

since a few days the http://nihontoclub.com/ is, at least for me from Austria, not reachable any more

Has anyone further information...?

 

@admin, it this thread is wrong here, please move to to the right section or delete it if necessary

 

regards

Klaus

 

 

[DTM72]

Not working for me as well. Wonder what happened?

[Brian]

Stan Nazarenko hasn't visited here in a while, so can't ask.
@kazarena

Bright young guy! Hope all is well.

[nulldevice]

I was just about to post this exact same question here yesterday. It's been unreachable for me for a few days now.

[cisco-san]

it was a great source....!!!

Wonder what really happened?!

As Brian wrote, hope all is well!

[Brian]

He seems to be in charge of some seriously big projects and company...so possibly life is in the way and he's just taking a breather. I'm sure we'll hear more and trust that it's temporary

[Robert S]

Seems to be back up now.

 

Robert

[Lewis B]

39 minutes ago, Robert S said:

Seems to be back up now.

 

Robert

Not from where I'm sitting

[SteveM]

Getting a "504 Gateway Time-out" message.

[Brendan campbell]

No still not working . It’s very useful. 

[Robert S]

Odd.  I looked up a swordsmith a couple of hours ago on the Index and it was OK.  Maybe server/internet probems.

[Bruce Pennington]

Maybe they are getting attacked, what do you call it when they flood with thousands and thousands of hits on a website?

[SteveM]

DOS (Denial of Service) attack

[nulldevice]

11 hours ago, SteveM said:

DOS (Denial of Service) attack

Yup, or if the attack is coming from multiple sources its a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.

 

Most attacks like this these days are DDoS in the form of botnets (huge groups of infected computers, appliances, anything with an internet connection and weak security) that are offered for sale as a service to use for X hours for $X/hr. 

 

It seems like NihontoClub is hosted on AWS based on a nslookup, and they typically have pretty good preventions you can put in place for attacks so who knows what's up. 

[Jaron]

It is back up for me today. Maybe server maintenance over the weekend.. 

[Jaron]

…..and back down.

[Brian]

Probably new DNS Propagation issues. They resolve in a few days.

[Char]

On 6/28/2024 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Pennington said:

Maybe they are getting attacked, what do you call it when they flood with thousands and thousands of hits on a website?

Yes, there was a major ransomware attack last week hopefully he's not dealing with the fallout of that like others. 

[nulldevice]

Since the site has been reachable on and off and it's hosted on AWS (probably a smaller instance to save run costs), I'm assuming he might be getting a lot of traffic unintentionally, possibly from some of these attacks. Lots of spam traffic is on the internet these days and coming from all over the world. I've had times where my NAS just got hit with tons of stuff from China and was blocking requests left and right. I had to pretty much block off 1/2 of the world's IP range just to cut down some of the chatter. 

[Brendan campbell]

I’ve been on it tonight UK time . It was ok .