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Anyone having trouble connecting to this?

jnorthrop 15y ago
I am. I think their server must be overloaded. I bookmarked the blog post announcing this and I'm going to try again tomorrow.
- dthunt 15y ago
  people were having fun with forkbombs a bit ago. Presumably we're on the synflood stage now.
- gdb 15y ago
  Yeah, we're rebooting. Should be up in a few more minutes. Sorry about that.
  - saurik 15y ago
    For anyone building something similar, I imagine having an elastic load balancer for TCP port 22 with a health check on a web service that spawns a process as each of the user accounts before returning "good", combined with an auto-scaling group to make certain there are always a couple healthy instances, would be an automated way to keep something like this running through fork bombs.
mirkules 15y ago
I was in there 5 minutes ago, did cat /levels/level02.c and then it stopped responding. I don't think cat could crash the server, but if it did, I'm sorry?
- derwildemomo 15y ago
  pretty sure it wasn't you. but then again, you never know with cats.
  - deleted 15y ago
    [deleted]
  - mkopinsky 15y ago
    cat considered harmful?
    - mkopinsky 15y ago
      To be clear, I'm making a joke riffing on the seminal paper "cat -v considered harmful".
sidolin 15y ago
Doesn't work for me as well. I managed to login an do one ls, but since then it's dead. Can someone share the source and program of the first level so we can have a look?
heywire 15y ago
Yeah, my connection froze, and now I cannot connect, ssh or http...
rottencupcakes 15y ago
Maybe they should just publish a VM image.
- ab 15y ago
  Not a bad idea, but how do you keep people from peeking at the passwords with root access on their own VM?
  - smountcastle 15y ago
    They are asking for code or a brief description of how you proceeded through the steps. If you're going to take the time to document the process (correctly) then it shouldn't matter that you have the root password. Presumably you'd get stuck at some point where you couldn't explain how you achieved the subsequent step.
  - Drbble 15y ago
    How do you keep yourself from rifling through the deck to find the Aces when you play solitaire?
luckygerbils 15y ago
I think someone decided to forkbomb it. I'm still logged on and every external command I type gets me "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable". This is why we can't have nice things.

I am. I think their server must be overloaded. I bookmarked the blog post announcing this and I'm going to try again tomorrow.

dthunt 15y ago
people were having fun with forkbombs a bit ago. Presumably we're on the synflood stage now.
gdb 15y ago
Yeah, we're rebooting. Should be up in a few more minutes. Sorry about that.
- saurik 15y ago
  For anyone building something similar, I imagine having an elastic load balancer for TCP port 22 with a health check on a web service that spawns a process as each of the user accounts before returning "good", combined with an auto-scaling group to make certain there are always a couple healthy instances, would be an automated way to keep something like this running through fork bombs.

mirkules 15y ago

I was in there 5 minutes ago, did cat /levels/level02.c and then it stopped responding. I don't think cat could crash the server, but if it did, I'm sorry?

derwildemomo 15y ago
pretty sure it wasn't you. but then again, you never know with cats.
- deleted 15y ago
  [deleted]
- mkopinsky 15y ago
  cat considered harmful?
  - mkopinsky 15y ago
    To be clear, I'm making a joke riffing on the seminal paper "cat -v considered harmful".

sidolin 15y ago

Doesn't work for me as well. I managed to login an do one ls, but since then it's dead. Can someone share the source and program of the first level so we can have a look?

heywire 15y ago

Yeah, my connection froze, and now I cannot connect, ssh or http...

rottencupcakes 15y ago

Maybe they should just publish a VM image.

ab 15y ago
Not a bad idea, but how do you keep people from peeking at the passwords with root access on their own VM?
- smountcastle 15y ago
  They are asking for code or a brief description of how you proceeded through the steps. If you're going to take the time to document the process (correctly) then it shouldn't matter that you have the root password. Presumably you'd get stuck at some point where you couldn't explain how you achieved the subsequent step.
- Drbble 15y ago
  How do you keep yourself from rifling through the deck to find the Aces when you play solitaire?

luckygerbils 15y ago

I think someone decided to forkbomb it. I'm still logged on and every external command I type gets me "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable". This is why we can't have nice things.