Recent Downtime

**Dai-kun** · 12-19-2009, 02:48 PM

Hi guys,

I just recently found out about the downtime ( 1 hour ago actually ).

I was attending my friend's dad funeral yesterday and this morning so I did not have time to check on the site/e-mail/phone.

I'm currently investigating the cause and will prevent it from happening again in the future so right now this is my top priority.

Thanks for understanding.

EDIT from aarinfantasy:
In future if AarinFantasy.com server or site is down, you can get updates about us on two places, so add us on Twitter and FaceBook now.

Twitter (Aarin, Dai-kun, and some staff have access to):
Aarinfantasy (Aarinfantasy) on Twitter

FaceBook (Only Aarin has access and will reply to):
Welcome to Facebook | Facebook

Edit from Dai-kun 12/22

Figured out the recent downtime was due to a hacking attempt, probably by an auto-bot or similar.

To be more specific, it was an exploit in the vBSEO (the url rewriting software that the forum uses). vBSEO released a patch recently, but unfortunately, I wasn't on to apply the patch. Rest assured that it's applied now.

The hack attempt was basically to redirect you to a pretty lame file sharing site.
It tried to make use of the rewrite engine and make all web page served be redirected. However, the attempt to do site-wide redirection failed as their code was typed incorrectly, so instead you receive a 500 internal error message as it couldn't decipher the code.

It also tried to make use of 403, 404, and 500 error messages to redirect you to that site. Members have pointed out that following the social groups / pictures & albums links when viewing the gallery redirected them to that site also. The social groups / pictures & albums links are incorrect when on a gallery page (since it shows the link as http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/gallery/groups/ instead of http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/groups/, therefore returning a 404 error message which, if correctly shown, is the OOPS!! picture.

**StarRose** · 12-19-2009, 02:50 PM

Ah no worries, least it's up and okay now

**keiichirou** · 12-19-2009, 03:08 PM

No problem~ I was surprised too. But nevertheless, thanks for checking.

**Kadaj_chan** · 12-19-2009, 03:18 PM

no worries! ^^ Thx for making every thing all right!

**inume27** · 12-19-2009, 03:43 PM

No problem Dai-kun...but man after almost a whole day without aarin I almost went crazy

....missed it so much

**garnetyuna** · 12-19-2009, 04:00 PM

man, It scared me this downtime

thank you so much for taking time to fix everything.

**SquallxZell** · 12-19-2009, 04:26 PM

Sorry about your friends father and as we all know Real Life happens to us all and comes first.

I never worry about Aarinfantasy when it is down because we have you to sort it out sooner or later. I'm just glad that you are alright. Thanks for doing what you can and I hope you find out what the cause was.

**Artemis Moonsong** · 12-19-2009, 04:52 PM

Everyone, don't forget to check aarinfantasy on Twitter ^^ I wasn't worried at all; I just kept checking until I saw the Twitter update and knew everything would be sorted out.