Dreamhost firewall error (Resolving)
Due 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 9:06 pm
Muhahhahaha - 400,000 customers OFFLINE!
(to “me”) - He can’t edit the list because it disconnected him as well
Too funny.
Note to Dreamhost - Need back door to Firewall.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Rumor has it they were having secks in the server room and knocked over the servers.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
This is completely unacceptable!!!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Great, now I have to go find some porn sites to keep me busy until my sites are back up. lol
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I’m getting fed up with problems at dreamhost - horrible database performance, horrible latency, billing errors, now the whole company is down?
I think I’d rather pay twice as much for half as much pain. I’m not quite prepared to take my business elsewhere, but I’m looking hard for a place to take my business and am definitely going to start migrating stuff off soon.
So tired of the poor service :-/
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Guess what? Nobody cares.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
^^
Go go go, My sites are all down.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Severity: “Very” High
Or may i say very serious problem? We know mistakes do happen but this one is no ordinary. You guys makes sure that this wont happen again.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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PatrickD Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Every time someone at DreamHost screws up, they should be required to post an embarrassing photo of themselves as punishment…and to amuse us.
^^^^
I second that! We need things like that to keep morale high in this chat room while we wait for everything to come back up
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
great! now my site is down
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/03/03/blingy-file-server-issues/
NEED SOLVE THIS!!!!! TOO!!!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Not impressed. Prorated refunds or credits should be issued.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Presumably the same typo that locked us all out of our sites locked out their remote access as well.
This reminds me of a college fire drill party.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Jesus H.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Come on, let’s get these comments up to 200 before the sites come back. We can do it!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Yes, need photos of suspect….
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Well it has been a while since the service was down…
Almost to good to be true!!!
Almost that is….
Until some moron Typo something!
Geez well Don’t delay
Admin Bob
http://quadhits.com
http://globalautohits.com
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
This is pretty typical of dreamhost.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I have nothing to do since my site is down need help LOL
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@Christopher
I also wonder who host dreamhoststatus.com.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
It’s really a shame because DH was about to break an uptime record of almost two months.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@Andrew:
“You are kidding me, right? A freaking typing error and all of my sites are down. Bunch of amateurs.”
Obviously, you’ve never actually administered a network or you’d understand how easy it is to make a mistake like that. They’re human, so mistake *can* happen. Get a fucking clue.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
A+++++++ WOULD WASTE MONEY AGAIN!!!!
IIIIIIIIIIII’M NAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA
March 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Man. This really hurts esp. on peak surfer night for ads (Friday), this hurts not only millions of people with sites but also business.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
“Jenelle Says (March 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm):
Anyone wanna come over to my place? I’m about to put Family Ties Season 3 in the DVD player and make a nice big spaghetti bolognese. ”
Sounds like a party to me.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Man.. and I was just about to move the last few of my sites off of Dreamhost.. Now I’m even more glad I’m doing it!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
A good one for LOLcats - “i spillz on yer keyboard” or “catz won, dreamhost zero”
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hopefully we’ll back up any minute, there is a guy somewhere crying a lot.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
my dad was right! I should have opened a gas station XD
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Someone go suck out the blockage of the Tubes.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
As a sysadmin, I feel your pain. Here’s hoping the network comes back quickly!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
When the phone rings at 3am, and the servers are all down, who do you trust to answer the call?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
thats stupid. and im annoyed now..
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Looks like dreamhost being down may be the best thing for my social life in years.
Anyone in Ft. Worth want to hit the bar?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
someone at night but here is already 11-10 am
Thanks for the honesty but pls do all the best to prevent it in future
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Moving to MediaTemple. They seem to have their shit together.
I was a big DreamHost fan a while back but I recently recommended it to someone and then there has been nothing but problem after problem with this hosting company, so I unrecommended DH and we looked extensively for a new host. I migrated his sites, but mine haven’t been done in time for this mess.
How much money and business do you have to lose before fixing your setup?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Well, at least you stopped the DDOS
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Sites still down… Ummm… Does anyone know any good jokes?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hey guys, is Dreamhost down? Why’s everyone in the chat room, usually I’m the only one in here.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
thehun.com is still running…………………. XD
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
hahahah….the hillary comment is fucking good
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
It always happens? Why not asked this before? Drugs
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Jenelle … good with the food, and I will bring my own silverware and plates. But Family Ties?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
@Naga Patel: Hahah,,. that’s just so wrong. A gas station. That’s just a stereotype!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Oh, crap… I’ve been RICKROLLED!!!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
ALL WHAMBULANCE PASSENGERS PLEASE EXIT DREAMHOST
AT 1_AND_1_HOSTING.
You will be much happier there.
/Heh.
//Yes you will.
///heh …
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I question my loyalty to dreamhost. mistake after mistake. I always assume this will be the last one, but it never is. unacceptable. but at least the response from dreamhost will be chipper and funny, right?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
“Typoz canz deleet yr toobs - typz safe”
March 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Bleeding hilarious, good thing my sites aren’t busy.
It happens, as long as response time is appropriate, I’m cool.
Now would be good.
deny them all!!