{"id":168,"date":"2006-06-24T23:16:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T04:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-06-24T23:16:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T04:16:25","slug":"freenode-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/168\/freenode-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Freenode Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like the Freenode IRC network may be under attack. Around 20 minutes ago, I got kicked off, and haven&#8217;t been able to get back in &#8212; manually connecting to different servers, it seems that about  half of them are &#8216;Connection Refused&#8217;, half are not responding at all, and the one I could connect to is telling me that it&#8217;s all-full-up. Looking back in my status window, I see:<\/p>\n<p>23:44:18 [freenode] -ratbert(i=ratbert@freenode\/staff\/pdpc.levin)- [Global notice] I am a fat asshole, who loves abuse, die<br \/>\n23:44:29 [freenode] -ratbert(i=ratbert@freenode\/staff\/pdpc.levin)- DCC SEND YOUAREALLJUDENLOL<\/p>\n<p>Seems likely that someone got through to something they shouldn&#8217;t have&#8230; hopefully it doesn&#8217;t last too long, as a fair number of projects that I either participate in or maintain have their primary IRC channels there.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Freenode actually has someone whose full time job is to make it run.  I have no doubt that it will come back at some point, even if it is not quite as soon as I&#8217;d typically like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like the Freenode IRC network may be under attack. Around 20 minutes ago, I got kicked off, and haven&#8217;t been able to get back in &#8212; manually connecting to different servers, it seems that about half of them are &#8216;Connection Refused&#8217;, half are not responding at all, and the one I could connect to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}