Comments on: A Controller Was On The Fritz

By: Hyphen

Hyphen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:59:48 +0000

I don’t think this is the cause of my current problem, but my site is down now and there’s no other recent outages listed here. Anyone else having a problem at this time?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:00:43 +0000

I am having the same issue as Adan.

Matt

By: Adan Ortiz

Adan Ortiz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:17:48 +0000

Hello,

Is this the reason why a box pops up asking me for my password and user name? This only happen on outlook buth both fields have information so all I do is hit save but it pops up right back. I can keep trying this all fay and it keeps doing it. How can I get this fixed?

Thanks
Adan

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:39:53 +0000

OK.

By: kitchen

kitchen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:25:27 +0000

@Alex: no, it was definitely not compromised in any way, shape, or form.

At the current time we believe it simply to be a misconfiguration in the sysctl files-max setting, however we have not yet confirmed this.

The reason other sites were showing up instead of the normal bad_httpd_conf message is because the first virtualhost configured is what gets shown to users when apache doesn’t know which one specifically to show. In this case, the controller thought the documentroot for the first virtualhost (missing.dreamhost.org, specifically) didn’t exist, and skipped it.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:16:44 +0000

“If you notice that your domain is not resolving correctly and pointing to a completely different domain, please contact support and we’ll fix that right up for you.”

Clarification… was the controller compromised by hackers/spammers and will an investigation be carried out to determine whether this was the case? If possible, could be a nice little spammer trick to use well regarded/ranked domains for a few hours of spam but then get the domain labeled as a spammer, thus destroying it’s search ranking and users getting alerts visiting it.