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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: scout on March 08, 2013, 03:57 am

Title: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 03:57 am
The forum was down for me from around noon EST until just now  ....  so almost 12 hours.  Was it down for everyone else as well?

I am also locked out of my account over on SR itself in spite of only accessing it via Tails, memorized URL, and never entering my PIN.  I was successfully logged in until 4am EST, and now I'm locked out.

(I've contacted support -- nearly 10 hours ago now.)

So, tell me, anyone else have problems accessing the forums today?  I kept getting a SMF error ...
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Lushdt on March 08, 2013, 04:03 am
Yup, I was having problems connecting too.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 04:05 am
Sorry that you had trouble too, but it's slightly comforting knowing it wasn't just me!
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Limetless on March 08, 2013, 04:06 am
It's been a bit on-and-off for me yeah and to be honest so has the Road which, is slightly annoying as I'm still trying to catch up.

The only answer to this is to go get a Burger King when it opens in a few hours. XL Bacon Double Cheese mother fuckers. Suck my balls.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 04:09 am
being locked out of my SR account has kind of ruined my appetite today ..... but, please, eat a burger for me!
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Limetless on March 08, 2013, 04:10 am
being locked out of my SR account has kind of ruined my appetite today ..... but, please, eat a burger for me!

I'm gunna get two because they are just fuck-a-pornstar-in-the-ass-for-cash-on-a-bank-holiday-Monday-the-day-before-the-end-of-the-world-AWESOME.

Not much else is that good.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: zerik on March 08, 2013, 07:45 am
Was down for me as well till just now.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: PrincessHIGH on March 08, 2013, 08:13 am
I'm sorry to hear about your account scout, fingers crossed admin quickly resolve it for you, I hope we're not compromised :( I've been trying all night, can't hold a connection for longer than five minutes, as soon as I'm kicked off I get this:
Quote from: message
Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. 
Is everyone receiving the same message?
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:38 am
Yep, I've been getting that message since about 2pm EST today.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Limetless on March 08, 2013, 10:12 am
I can't even get on the road for work.  :-\
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Fallkniven on March 08, 2013, 12:00 pm
same smf forum error message for me over the last 12 hours, but i was able to log in to my sr account in that time.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: jackxblack on March 08, 2013, 04:39 pm
Yep, I've also been getting the same forum error message on and off for the last 12+ hours. No problems with my SR account though.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: slirp on March 08, 2013, 04:48 pm
So limetless is a fatass?  I imagined him skinny with all that coke.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 06:13 pm
Still locked out of my account with no word from the admins, staff, or DPR.  Still getting those SMF errors until just now as well.  :\
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: mito on March 08, 2013, 06:13 pm
yes, it is sucking today.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: zerik on March 08, 2013, 07:44 pm
I am getting the same message. Got on for a few min earlier then couldn't get back on till just now. ( I hope anyway )

Geez scout hope everything is ok with your account.

Anyone know what happened? Just the storm maybe?
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 07:58 pm
It could be the storm, I guess, but that wouldn't explain why I am now locked out of 2 accounts there.

I use Tails from a LiveCD on a computer that I use for nothing else.  I haven't downloaded anything.  I wasn't phished.  I haven't entered a PIN anywhere.  But I have no idea what is going on and no one is responding to me.  I had over 24 coins in there.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Atnas Daor Klis on March 08, 2013, 08:00 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/tCp90.gif)
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Atnas Daor Klis on March 08, 2013, 08:03 pm
I'm sorry to hear about your account scout, fingers crossed admin quickly resolve it for you, I hope we're not compromised :( I've been trying all night, can't hold a connection for longer than five minutes, as soon as I'm kicked off I get this:
Quote from: message
Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. 
Is everyone receiving the same message?

Yes I did. It went back up again but timed out all the time. It's touch and go I'm afraid. The regular silk road site was up though. Interesting note, while I was typing this pm it went down again. Look:

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

Like I said, it's touch and go, but this is taking too long so now I am off to touch something else. :)
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: Atnas Daor Klis on March 08, 2013, 08:04 pm
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I did it wrong the first time.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: JakkTheKipper on March 08, 2013, 08:06 pm
It was only the forum that went down for me, the main site was fine.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:09 pm
fml.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: zerik on March 08, 2013, 08:14 pm
I hope you get it resolved scout. You do a lot of good work here and always help members.

I get the admin are probably busy but they could at least let you mods know what is going on.

Btw the forums are still iffy. Had to post this twice.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: SelfSovereignty on March 08, 2013, 08:17 pm
... your account is locked out, Scout?  Am I the only one who's concerned this wasn't a fuck up -- as in someone who thought the forum server had special access to the SR server and went all out either getting in or DoS'ing it long enough to prevent a response while spoofing its IP...?

I don't know.  Probably nothing.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:20 pm
I don't know what the hell is going on.  Yes, my "scout" account is locked out and has been for over 24 hours.  I have a vendor account as well which is now locked out since about 30 minutes ago.

:\
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: SelfSovereignty on March 08, 2013, 08:21 pm
...   :-X
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:25 pm
I don't know what to do or how to get someone to help me.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: resalesam on March 08, 2013, 08:34 pm
I've been having the same issues for the last 48hrs as well. It appears to be working for me now.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: zerik on March 08, 2013, 08:34 pm
I don't know what to do or how to get someone to help me.

Geez I don't know what to do or how to help.

You have no way of contacting admin! I hope what ever happened will be fixed fast. Is it even remotely possible that your account was locked to keep it safe from what ever happened.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:37 pm
No, because apparently nothing is going on other than my being locked out of 2 of my accounts!
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: UK Stealth on March 08, 2013, 08:42 pm
Your not on your own i have been locked out for 8 hrs plus. Drove me nuts all day lol.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:46 pm
UK Stealth - are you locked out of your SR marketplace account?  That's where I'm locked out of 2 accounts. 
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: UK Stealth on March 08, 2013, 08:54 pm
No Scout just forum market been fine .  :P
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: valakki on March 08, 2013, 08:55 pm
SR works for me at the moment.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 08:55 pm
Glad to hear it's only me who has been locked out of 2 of their 3 accounts.  lol.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: nitpi950 on March 08, 2013, 09:04 pm
All to the good in [place where I am]
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: UK Stealth on March 08, 2013, 09:11 pm
I guess it's it aint just me with forum withdrawals lol :o
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: anonom on March 08, 2013, 09:28 pm
I had quite a lot of downtime on the forum too. But i think it started more like 24h ago for me.

Got the same SMF error since 18+ hours or something. Some minor issues on SR too but nothing very annoying.

scout: You can't connect to SR or you can't log in ? If it's the second then maybe your password somehow got captured by someone ? I don't want to seem paranoid, but I don't see why only your accounts would be affected on SR.

The real question would be: Which of my passwords are similar and in that case is it coherent to the accounts I can't access ? It would be quite odd since Tails should be a pretty resilient system and a keylogger would be hard to install...

Anyway, good luck !

Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 09:31 pm
My passwords are not similar at all, and they are all over 20 characters long.

I can access SR just fine, but upon attempting to login I am given a "login incorrect" or something to that effect.  Now I have one account left and am trying to get some help.

How could there be a keylogger on my Tails LiveCD/DVD? 
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: resalesam on March 08, 2013, 10:06 pm
I spoke too soon in my last post. Still having issues getting on the forum.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 10:08 pm
Good news -- I'm back into my account on SR!  Yay!
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: zerik on March 08, 2013, 10:17 pm
Good news -- I'm back into my account on SR!  Yay!

Awesome! Glad all is ok.

Any word from admin as to what happened?
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 10:19 pm
inigo said he had no clue.  but no coins were missing, so that's good.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: impkin on March 08, 2013, 10:20 pm
Good news -- I'm back into my account on SR!  Yay!

Good to hear, Scout. Looking forward to hearing what the issue was.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: livestr0ng on March 08, 2013, 10:25 pm
I wasn't able to get on the forum for most if not all of yesterday and for a few hours today. I was a little scared and agitated. As you can see, I'm back....It feels so good.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: masterblaster on March 08, 2013, 10:28 pm
Forum has been down constantly, luckily i havent suffered from the same "lost all my coins" "locked out of my account" issues plaguing everyone else. Hey i think i have an old celeron tower in my garage, maybe i should donate that to DPR so he CAN RUN A DECENT FUCKING SITE.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 10:28 pm
Good news -- I'm back into my account on SR!  Yay!

Good to hear, Scout. Looking forward to hearing what the issue was.

inigo has no idea what happened or how it happened.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 10:32 pm
Forum has been down constantly, luckily i havent suffered from the same "lost all my coins" "locked out of my account" issues plaguing everyone else. Hey i think i have an old celeron tower in my garage, maybe i should donate that to DPR so he CAN RUN A DECENT FUCKING SITE.

Fortunately, I think I'm the only one who was locked out of two accounts.  No one else has reported any issues today like that, except for me.  And inigo reset passwords for me so I'm back into both accounts and no coins are missing, so it's all good.  Granted, I'd love to know what happened ... but no one knows.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: mito on March 08, 2013, 11:10 pm
ping
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: BBB on March 08, 2013, 11:20 pm
Works for me.
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: anonom on March 08, 2013, 11:30 pm
My passwords are not similar at all, and they are all over 20 characters long.

I can access SR just fine, but upon attempting to login I am given a "login incorrect" or something to that effect.  Now I have one account left and am trying to get some help.

How could there be a keylogger on my Tails LiveCD/DVD?
Why would it be impossible for a keylogger to install itself on Tails ? Live CD still can read/write on RAM ? Most live systems lets you install and download things even though they will be deleted once the system shuts down.
A live CD doesn't make keylogging impossible as far as I know. But it's true that it may be much harder to do so.

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Forum has been down constantly, luckily i havent suffered from the same "lost all my coins" "locked out of my account" issues plaguing everyone else. Hey i think i have an old celeron tower in my garage, maybe i should donate that to DPR so he CAN RUN A DECENT FUCKING SITE.

Fortunately, I think I'm the only one who was locked out of two accounts.  No one else has reported any issues today like that, except for me.  And inigo reset passwords for me so I'm back into both accounts and no coins are missing, so it's all good.  Granted, I'd love to know what happened ... but no one knows.

Actually a few seconds after posting my other message in this topic, I just saw a topic created by someone mentionning he couldn't access his SR account. So maybe you were not the only one affected by this ? Unfortunately, I couldn't find that topic yet...
Title: Re: Forum Down Today?
Post by: scout on March 08, 2013, 11:36 pm
I haven't downloaded anything on this computer, nor anything while using Tails, so that's why I don't understand how this could have been a keylogger issue.  it is a clean computer from which I only ever boot my Tails liveCD/DVD ...

Who knows.  Really don't think it could've been a keylogger.