Nation Creation temporarily disabled
Priestess Pythia
06-01-2006, 13:02
I was searching through the feeders, and noticed the the passed 3 hours no new nation was created. There was no news item about it, and I couldn't find an announcement about it either. Is there a problem?
Nation Creation temporarily disabled
Eranmane
06-01-2006, 13:52
Attempted to create a puppet. No nation creation. :confused: :(
It just said:
Nation Creation temporarily disabled
Crazy girl
06-01-2006, 14:18
Seconds ago: The Republic of Edeltje was founded.
Works fine here
Priestess Pythia
06-01-2006, 15:00
The puppet creation has started again :)
Presumably the admin were doing something and turned off nation creation temporarily. Nothing to worry about.
SalusaSecondus
06-01-2006, 17:34
Presumably the admin were doing something and turned off nation creation temporarily. Nothing to worry about.
This seems to be a safe assumption to me.
HC Eredivisie
06-01-2006, 19:01
This seems to be a safe assumption to me.But is it a correct assumption?:p
Reformentia
06-01-2006, 19:33
I was searching through the feeders, and noticed the the passed 3 hours no new nation was created. There was no news item about it, and I couldn't find an announcement about it either. Is there a problem?
Well, we were on a recruiting run through the Pacifics yesterday afternoon and noticed nations being created so fast by the time we sent telegrams to all of the new ones currently displayed and refreshed the screen they were all replaced with another batch. (At one point we refreshed and the entire regional happenings list of the Pacific was populated by newly founded nations that has all been created either "seconds ago" or "1 minute ago"). We'd estimate hundreds of nations were all created in the space of about 30 minutes which was extremely bizarre... and we'd hazard a guess that had something to do with it.
Looking back, it almost seemed like a strangely crafted denial of service attack. The server was running extremely slowly...
Looking back, it almost seemed like a strangely crafted denial of service attack. The server was running extremely slowly...
But it's like that most of the time... :-(
I would have thought the admins would already have in place something that stops one IP address from creating huge numbers of nations in quick succession.
Eranmane
06-01-2006, 20:42
The puppet creation has started again :)
Yes!
(Mabye admin hit the wrong button!)
The Most Glorious Hack
06-01-2006, 21:32
Looking back, it almost seemed like a strangely crafted denial of service attack.Nope. A DoS attack would have disabled the entire site, not just one mechanic.
Reformentia
06-01-2006, 21:58
Nope. A DoS attack would have disabled the entire site, not just one mechanic.
The entire site was incredibly slow. It was taking me over a minute to send individual TGs, and any page load was pretty glacial... plus I was getting constant gateway timeouts... but like I said it only kind of seemed like it, not saying it actually was one. But something funny was going on.
Did NS get mentioned in some major publication or something and it just happened to instantly generate an insanely high amount of new users all at once? It just seemed like the server was processing new nations requests as fast as it could handle them for over half an hour, and it was still at it when I logged off and headed home.
Did NS get mentioned in some major publication or something and it just happened to instantly generate an insanely high amount of new users all at once?
Yes, it was on the front page at www.digg.com yesterday.
Priestess Pythia
07-01-2006, 13:42
The entire site was incredibly slow. It was taking me over a minute to send individual TGs, and any page load was pretty glacial... plus I was getting constant gateway timeouts... but like I said it only kind of seemed like it, not saying it actually was one. But something funny was going on.
Did NS get mentioned in some major publication or something and it just happened to instantly generate an insanely high amount of new users all at once? It just seemed like the server was processing new nations requests as fast as it could handle them for over half an hour, and it was still at it when I logged off and headed home.
I had that same problem. It was extremely frustrating that one round of recruiting through the Pacifics took me more than half an hour, while the speed of newly founded nations refreshed the regional happenings every minute. At that time I decided to take a rest. It was very bad for my bloodpressure :p
Eranmane
07-01-2006, 15:36
The entire site was incredibly slow.
Even with Broadband, the same.