Is there a loading issue with the forums?

ashstorm1

Since yesterday I’m experiencing an intermittent loading issue with the Cryptic forums in general. Every now and then, the home page will not load when I try and access it… It usually lasts for a few minutes before returning to normal again, then the loading issue will reappear anew. I’ve been trying different browsers (Chrome and Mozilla at least) and the problem persists. Otherwise, my internet connection works fine and I can smoothly browse the net and play the games.
Anyone else having experienced that issue?

decorumfriends

I had that once last night. I'm just going to blame everything recent on those Denial of Service attacks going around. There's lots of screwed up stuff because of that. Heck, the hotel I work at was completely without phone service yesterday from those damn things (and I'm missing about three or four channels on my cable).

ashstorm1

I've tried cleaning my browsers' cache and changing my IP address... The problem seems to persist. Now the forum is up again, but who knows for how long?

flyingfinn

Until next time an neglected and hissyfitted kid gets up from it's bed and makes another attack.

nextnametaken

The DNS for DYN is being attacked,http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835

ashstorm1

Any idea how long the issue might persist? It's intermittent, as i have said above, but still really annoying...

Edit : things have now returned to normal. As suspected, this was all due to the massive DoS attack days ago.