Any of those ips been used to post comments? It’d be interesting to know how such geniuses communicate when forced to use words.

Welcome back! And thanks for posting the youtube for one of my favorite novelty songs!

No, they’re proxy IPs. Someone tried to knock the site down and tamper with the internal files.

Time to be like conservative sites… time to hold a FUNDRAISER!!!

Damn that Ned Lamont.

Rightwing Internet Terrorists have it in for SadlyNo??? I hope you can nail the dirtyperps.

I guess someone took offense at the (accurate) descriptions of Malkin’s mouth as “anus-like”.

Well, it’s more likely a Malkin follower than Patterico. At least his lot is willing to give it a go before being put off by our horrible fucking language.

No, they’re proxy IPs. Someone tried to knock the site down and tamper with the internal files.

But were they trying to destroy the site or merely knock holes in it? There is a big difference, I’m told.

Weeeeeellllll, I guess Magalangadingdong’s Internet Internment Brigade has brought you to your knees.

And this was a genuine DoS attack, not the bullshit variety where one claims a vast conspiracy of hacking when, really, the hamster-on-a-treadmill/bumblebee-in-a-jar/486-from-1993-built-by-Yugo piece of shit server failed but we want to present ourselves as victims so we can beg readers to hit the tip jar, ‘DoS attack’, like the kind that frequently seems to happen out in Colorado.

But were they trying to destroy the site or merely knock holes in it? There is a big difference, I’m told.

Dunno yet. It doesn’t seem like a very smart attack, but we still have to comb through the logs to see exactly what happened.

Just proves yer Powerz are Potent, lads. Unlike these sad sacks.

And this was a genuine DoS attack, not the bullshit variety where one claims a vast conspiracy of hacking when, really, the hamster-on-a-treadmill/bumblebee-in-a-jar/486-from-1993-built-by-Yugo piece of shit server failed but we want to present ourselves as victims so we can beg readers to hit the tip jar, ‘DoS attack’, like the kind that frequently seems to happen out in Colorado.

Frickin’ Colorado! I’ve heard rumors of such evils, in TBogg comments threads… clearly, it was either Balrogs, or you have made a powerful enemy in Soros, tyrant of Barad-Dur.

Or, more seriously, it is astonishing the level of pettiness that they will stoop to. Jesus Christ, it’s just a blog. Who cares *that* much? It’s just fucking around on the computer, for chrissakes.

Someday ,somebody is going to get a resume adorned with the claim, “engineered attack on comedy website.” And then they will be given the Medal of Freedom! And a Pony!

Keep up the sense of humor. They can’t stand it. They are so used to being bullies that when you respond with humor it drives them nuts with rage, which of course you will mock ceaselessly, which will drive them positively frothily rabidly isanely pissed off.

Got your back bro!

Welcome back!

Don’t let the choadwagons bring you down. Glad you are not a smoking crater.

is that, literally, the best they can do? that looks like the site was attacked by a highly trained, remorseless, technically proficient cadre of cute fluffy bunnies. color me scared.

comedy ftw! Missed you guys.

a highly trained, remorseless, technically proficient cadre of cute fluffy bunnies.

“that rabbit’s dynamite!”

Thers said,

Or, more seriously, it is astonishing the level of pettiness that they will stoop to. Jesus Christ, it’s just a blog. Who cares *that* much? It’s just fucking around on the computer, for chrissakes.

Thers, they were getting between a wingnut and her wingnut welfare. Or like the KSFO morans put it, the madly hos were trying to cut off the Malkintents’ livelihoods. And getting between a winger and their cheetos is just asking to have your server slapped around by Pasty’s cock.

Damn DOS ate my snarky post in that Malkin thread. And I don’t feel like doing it again.

*Goes back to watching the Star Trek (TNG) on the youtubes*

“Thers, they were getting between a wingnut and her wingnut welfare. Or like the KSFO morans put it, the madly hos were trying to cut off the Malkintents’ livelihoods. And getting between a winger and their cheetos is just asking to have your server slapped around by Pasty’s cock.”

The most dangerous place in the blogosphere is between Malkin and a camera.

You guys are really getting under someone’s skin! Congratulations.

Perhaps I was too hasty to lay the blame on Ganesh Bengal Cat.

Never underestimate the lengths one will go to impress a cute chick when one is a basement-dwelling wingnut hobgoblin.

Also, never underestimate the skills of a competent hosting company.

I suspect Islamofackers.

ps. You forgot to threaten legal action against the usual suspect sterotypes then discover you hacked yourself…

Html Mencken, you mean something like this?

I blame Dan “Riehlly Fucking Stupid” Riehl.

Riehl thinks a DoS attack is standing in his room shouting at the SN main page “I deny you service!” until he passes out from lack of oxygen (he can go a surprisingly long time what with so few brain cells to support.) And it couldn’t be the Wanky, what with that damn trick knee. The rabbit seems the most likely choice. Perhaps it would help to confuse it if you ran away more?

Speaking of Holy Joe…

In another conversation, he told me that he was reading “America Alone,� a book by the conservative commentator Mark Steyn, which argues that Europe is succumbing, demographically and culturally, to an onslaught by Islam, leaving America friendless in its confrontation with Islamic extremism.

For his next act, Joe could review something by Adam Yoshida.

So Malkin (very badly) attempts to make fun of/score points of Amanda

And Hadley, Rose comments on it, largely by letting Malkin make an ass of herself with her worse than Shatner acting.

So some wingnut and/or Ned Lamont launches a Dos attack?

Boy they sure love that freedom they are spreading in the Middle East.

Ah, the one thing missing from Lieberman’s claims that “Ned Lamont hacked my website!”: Actual proof, in the form of the IP addresses of the offenders.

I was wondering why I couldn’t get onto SN last night. Seems I tried to get on just as the DoS attack was happening.

All your servers are belong to us!

P.S. Phoenix Woman, anything Dangerstein says must be true. He don’t need steenking proof!

Probably Mirengoff.

Hey… some of those IPs appear to be from Poland. Maybe Poland was just mad because you kept forgetting it.

You mocked Malkin, and then the CHUDs came. Doesn’t that rank right up there with “unrest in the Middle East” on the old predictabilometer?

Fucking CHUDs

Damn it all to hell, where’s DoS attack? Always the bloody bridesmaid….

There should be an ‘our’ and an url in that previous comment.

I hang my head in shame.

Hey, on the plus side, your feed is now fixed. At least, its fixed for whatever the hell reader Firefox uses for its live update.

If this was a member of the wingnut corps, it’s as close as any of them have ever come to actual combat.

Shame on those who would attack this site. An attack on this site is an attack on free speech. Sure, I’ve been abused here, but the powers that be runnin’ this site have always been good to me and have always protected my right to pimp my own songs and openly express my unpopular opinions.

Confession time… that second IP address is mine… I just keep hitting refresh because I love you guys

sorry, it won’t happen again

Your attack came from Poland. Below is the whois registration and how to file a complaint if you want.

http://whois.domaintools.com/83.14.180.174

Welcome back! Snag, you got it right!

Since when did DNStuff go pay-for-service? I must’ve missed the memo.

You’re in good company. Large chunks of TW Cable in LA were down last night. A graphic site I moderate is under historically large .ru originated proxy spam attack. If, combined with your glitch, these three things weren’t all completely different kinds of problems, I’d be trying to connect dots above my geek-grade.

I think Paul Mirengoff is responsible. His confession will be up later this afternoon.

Seriously, though, you guys are great.

JesteÅ› szalony!

Since when did DNStuff go pay-for-service? I must’ve missed the memo.

A couple of weeks ago. They aren’t entirely pay-for-play – if you scroll down past the signup notice, the tools are still there.

‘They aren’t entirely pay-for-play – if you scroll down past the signup notice, the tools are still there.’

Great, thanks!

Dear Sadly No,

We love you, and are relieved enough at your continued resilience that we won’t even say snide things about Chumbawumba.

Fondly,

Your readers.

I had something bizarre happen while trying to visit alicublog last night. The site opened hundreds of windows of itself. I finally stopped it by smashing my keyboard like Spock did in the first Star Trek movie.

I didn’t do it!

I’m kind of disappointed. I figured a big-time C-List blog like Sadly, No, winner of the 2006 weblog award for best humor blog, known and discussed far and wide, would have a large, glass-walled humming data center, with backup mainframes, comments running on a quad SPARC, large diesel generators for offline power and armed security managing access control. Now I begin to suspect otherwise…

mikey

If it was a concerted rightie effort against lefty blogs, then that’s an example of brownshirt behavior par excellence.

Packetnacht, if one may be overwrought?

Herr Doktor,

I have no sympathy for you — presuming, of course, that you voluntarily got a Bengal and an Abyssian!

You fool!

DoS attack? Dudes, catch up. Most of us are on WIndows.

>>Packetnacht fix whatever inconvenience you might be temporarily experiencing.

Herr Doktor Bimler said:

Perhaps I was too hasty to lay the blame on Ganesh Bengal Cat.

and then Sporty said:

Herr Doktor,

You fool!

I will cut you both.

After I report you both to Teh Authorities for anti-Bengalism.

Mehitabel the Abyssinian will have to make her own report, but I don’t think that anti-Abyssinianism is a hate crime.

But she will cut at least one of you. Because she is beautiful and fierce.

And I shall laugh! Bwahaha!

PS Welcome back, Sadly, No! And just so you know I didn’t do this, despite Herr Doktor Bimler’s baseless assertions, please remember that I don’t even know where Poland is. I don’t even know where I am, for that matter.

For the past week, I’ve been having trouble getting into different sites, and our web connection was extremely dicey the past few days (but other ports were fine).

Hm…

IT’S THE TERRORISTS! (piddle!)

SAVE US, W! SAVE US!

¿How many pipples are actually een Chumbawumba?

There seems to be an awful lot of them.

¿Ees thees some sort of welfare program for British musicians?

¿eh?

El Gato: si, es socialismo.

IP Freely addresses?

Jerry Falwell might say God himself was the culprit. Of course his God is a little less merciful than mine. His God needs to take an anger management course.

I don’t know, it doesn’t seem all that odd to me. I usually check your site about 1200-1500 times a day myself.