The new memory has made a huge improvement, but we have had a rash of gallery leaches running really nasty scripts against the servers. I am working to filter them out as quickly as I can, but sometimes they slide by me for a couple of hours. I would be interested in getting a traceroute from you to see what the hop times are like. If you would like, you can email that to negentropicman@renderosity.com. Thanks.

Thanks for pointing this out. Can you give me any more details? If you could quote the error message or give me a screen shot, that would be great. Also if you can give me any info from a view certificate screen, it would help immensely. If you would prefer to move this to email, just reply to negentropicman@renderosity.com Thanks.

Hiya, I see that jimbo got it worked out, but I'm still curious about NightCelt... Does it work for you now? Thanks.

That's why I'm a tech and not a financial guy. ;-}

A ping flood attack is where someone starts ALOT of individual machines on the internet hitting a single site. This overloads the site and will eventually cause a denial of service. This is the same thing that happened a couple of years ago when eBay and Yahoo were attacked and brought down. It is non-damaging, but will cause delays in internet services as your network card is too busy trying to keep up with the ping requests to serve out real data.

Hiya, Our ISP has been twitching over the last couple of weeks. We have worked closely with them and they are fixing the problem. We will shortly be trunked out through 3 OC class lines terminating in 3 different cities. Thanks for your patience as we work through these issues.

Well, the galleries are back to normal. And I can't find not one bug. So, if you happen to find one, just post it to this thread and we'll squish 'em. Thanks for your patience.

Still outta breath, but I put the new article on the front page with a short tech rundown. Enjoy!!!

I'll post an article on the front page with the significant details once I catch my breath. Many thanks to rcook and tim for all of the help here. The artist sites are almost done, then, I'm gonna go trolling the galleries to see what is up with the missing images.

Nope, the post was primarily for the benefit of Anthony. I was just saying thanks for the assist. I wish I could do something to fix the problem for you, but as is evidenced by the traceroute, you aren't having any latency problems, so once again, the problem would have to be with your proxy server. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Thanks for the help PJF. It should be noted that a trace route although very helpful in trouble shooting gereal connections problems is based on the ICMP protocol and would not be effected by any type of proxy setting. The issue at hand seems to be that the proxy server that you are dealing with at work has it's zone config for the internet zone locked down when it comes to multi-part mime encoding. This is a mis-configuration and should be fixed. You are able to send via the email system as it is only mime/text instead of multi-part mime. This is also why you are able to send standard email (via port 25) to renderosity. We have around 50000 users on this site and the only time I hear of problems of this nature is when a proxy server is misconfigured. For example, there was an instance where most of @Home had the exact same problem. It ended up being the @Home proxy servers not being configured properly. Once I worked with their admins, all was resolved. I can definatively say that this is not a Renderosity problem, but a problem with your end of the pipe. Hope this helps. NegentopicMan Renderosity Systems Administrator

This site sits behind a rather sophisticated firewall. Among other things, it performs an action on every incoming packet that verifies the validity of the source of the data packet. So, a man-in-the-middle attack is highly unlikely here.

Just email a request to admin@renderosity.com with your username and new email address and we'll change it.

Hmmm... Nothing out of the ordinary there. That is really odd. I'll do some more investigating in my copious spare time. Thanks for the info.

Glad that helped. Says alot for your patience and desire to be involved in the community. I am curious about your browser/machine/OS, as that setting was supposed to only keep you from 'downloading' the gallery images (yea, like you couldn't just browse your cache). With Netscape 4.x and IE on most any platform I have tried, the site looked OK. I have heard complaints about Opera mishandling the tables, but that's about it. Pretty sad for a non-free browser. Anyway, Could ya feed me some details?