Mar 07
8:47 pm
Dreamhost firewall error (Resolving)
Posted (March 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm PST) by KellyDue to a typing error on our primary router while trying to block a denial of service attack, DreamHost is currently offline. This includes all email, web hosting, etc. A technician is about 15 minutes out from our datacenter to undo this mistake.
I apologize for this mistake. I was intending to be editing our non-live access-list, and edited the live one by mistake.
Update 9:54 PM Pacific: We have unblocked the firewall and our routing is coming back online. Sites should start working again as soon as our router finishes loading its tables. I use “resolving” because it is still processing the routes.
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March 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
LOL I feel for you hahaha
March 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Well, I guess that’s one way to deny service.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I was wondering for a sec why my site was down
March 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
MOTHER FUCKERS!!!! FUCKING LOOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO to school before admin a Server
March 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You really need a terminal server…
March 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
All of dreamhost is down? Well, at least I’m the first one to comment.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Wow, dreamhost and typos, for for millions, now you turned yourself off. Invest in typing classes!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Heheh - more fat fingers at dreamhost?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
*losers.
learn how to spell before you flip out on people.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
you get’em guys! That’ll keep those haxor/suxors out of the system! Deny all!!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
damnit, this is the first time in a long time that my site has been down. I pay quite a bit for the virtual private server too
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
LOOSERS? Heh shit happens this guy/girl is being very honest about it.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
My site was down for 5 hours Wednesday evening, I wonder how long it will be down tonight.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Gah!!! this is bad! How can you allow one router mistake to bring down your entire service…very very not good.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Arghh! I was right in the middle of a really great blog post!!! It was brilliant, too!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Wow, I’m amazed by this quick post. Just minute ago my site was working flawlessly and now it’s not opening and I come here to check, and you guys just posted this 1 minute ago!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
AHAHA well, i was the seventh one to comment
March 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
My site has been really slow and returning a lot of interal server errors in the last few minutes. That explains it… Hope you fix it quickly.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
You are fired! It’s that simple! And it’s not a mistake! Never again… with You.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Thank goodness, I thought I somehow effed something up, so seeing this blog post was actually good news.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Taking suggestions for new webhosting services. This coupled with the frequent imap connectivity issues is way too much.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
OOOOPS!! So do we get a partial refund now?
Didn’t think so.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I think I’m going to have to switch guys. Your service has become increasingly less reliable… to not reliable at all.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Ah, crap.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I just sent an email to support about this before this was posted here.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
AWESOME! I was almost over my bandwidth limit! Thank you, Dreamhost!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. fail.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
WAY TO GO!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
oh man. I hope it gets back quickly I just invited a lot of people…. crap, bad timimng
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
guess whos server the DDOS was on…..
sorry guys.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
What is with you fools? Did you magically become perfect in the last 20 minutes? NO?! I didn’t think so. Cut people some slack. It’s down for a half an hour. Suck it up.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Delete the internet FTW!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Haha,
Like others have said, shite happens. At least that admitted to it!
Hope you get it up soon!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
oh shut up its not like anyone looks at your stupid little sites anyway
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
It can happen to anyone.
When most of use make this type mistake, nobody else notices. In your case, lots and lots of people noticed!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
D’oh!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Ok, we cannot do anything so please be fassssssssssstt…
Thanks
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
You are kidding me, right? A freaking typing error and all of my sites are down. Bunch of amateurs.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I cant wait to see the number of whinging posts complaining that this 15 minute downtime has caused their business to collapse, puppies to be killed and entire families to die.
Ill bet the hackers are happy though… Their DDOS attack worked beyond their wildest dreams - theyve taken down the whole of dreamhost
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Seems the masses have all stumbled here
Too bad on the fat fingers though. Oh.. well if I may offer a recommendation for those fat fingers… go to the store and buy a bag of bugles - and stick those of your fingers 
Cheers!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
wahahahaha…all my sites are down! i just can’t believe why they are allowing unexperienced people to handle the server. this is really really bad..
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
…WOW. I could handle my site going down, but damn, the entire network?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Just curious, do we get any sort of compensation for this kind of thing? I’m not expecting all of my wasted AdWords clicks to be reimbursed… but something like extension of our hosting plan for a couple of days?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
OH, MAN! HA HA HA HA!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Why would you fire the one person who is the least likely ever to make this mistake again?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
OMGWTFBBQ. Jeeze. This should be impossible, yet here it is.
I’ll thank you for the credit.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
?
good grief
March 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Yeah, word. There was a post here within 2 minutes of the shutdown…I’d say that’s pretty damn good. Of course, it shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but I agree, at least we wern’t sitting here wondering what was up.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hehe. Typos can happen to anyone.
Best part is it can be solved quickly when observed.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Man, I’ve actually done exactly that.
I know the pain!