Goddamn monday mornings suck lately.
Couldn’t get to sleep until 5:30 am – tossing and turning. 6 am I get a call for emergency. Same as last fucking monday, and the monday before, and the monday before… DDOS attack on apache. Of course, it’s still running, and the CPU usage is trivial, and all other services are running, and it returns requests eventually… So the crap monitoring service didn’t detect anything wrong…. So on a 1/2 hour of sleep, I’m trying to trace down the fucking origin IPs and block all of them, their ISPs and their friends ISPs… all the while customers are phoning me and yelling… God I hate mondays.
I have no idea why we’ve become a weekly target. The pattern suggests that someone is trying to fuck with one of our customers, but to what end I have no fucking idea. All I know for sure is that once or twice a week some fucker floods port 80 with junk from a few dozen new IPs, which I have to track down and block, and then spend the rest of my day doing due dilligence and filing complaints with unresponsive ISPs overseas who frankly just don’t give a fuck.
Now if I was just able to block all traffic from certain countries… Sadly, we have customers who work with reps in those countries, and thanks to DHCP and the universal presence of poorly secured windo$e computers…
There really is fuck all I can do but take the punch inna nuts first, block it and wait until it starts up again.
*sigh*
Explaining this stuff to a customer and how there is no magic bullet you can use to solve the problem is pointless. They just don’t get it, and even if they did, they just don’t care.
Not a lotta fun on an 1/2 hour of sleep lemme tell ya.
Man, I gotta find a way to get more sleep on Sunday nights. Nothing seems to work though. Sleeping pills, warm milk, regulated bed times, health supplements…. Maybe eating a whole turkey every Sunday….
Blarg. Maybe I can play hookey for an hour this afternoon and get a nap.