www.midnightoilproductions.com down?

[sadlerjon]

I just went to the web site and found a "This domain has been parked by godaddy.com" web page...

I hope its just a temporary technical difficulty...

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

I'll call Len right now.

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

They are dealing with a hacker. Working on fixing it. If you need something you can call 937-308-6150 or email

[cronos]

Judging from "whois", it's just a nameserver problem. Someone would have had to have hacked their GoDaddy account to change the nameservers -- not their site itself. It could just be a GoDaddy fluke. But changing the nameservers back to whatever they are supposed to be should take them out of "parked" mode and point it back to whatever server they use. If you ping midnightoilproductions.com you get the IP address 68.178.232.100 and when you visit it you get a page that says "site not available". It's definitely a "pointing" problem. Their site itself if probably still safe and sound.

(Yippie! I finally have 15 posts and can post URLs now!)

[arwes]

Originally Posted by cronos

(Yippie! I finally have 15 posts and can post URLs now!)

You're not going to offer us pharmaceuticals and fake wristwatches are you?

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Its back online. I talked to the owner so I know it was a hacking issue. They parked it to fix the problem.

[cronos]

Originally Posted by arwes

You're not going to offer us pharmaceuticals and fake wristwatches are you?

You figured me out! I'm more of an Avon pusher, though.

[Len Wilson]

Hey guys thanks for the concern. We were hacked but not personally. We were caught by a hacker script using a known vulnerability but have closed the door and are in now in the process of changing the locks.

The GoDaddy issue was just an attempt to redirect the nameservers while the site was having trouble.

[cronos]

Originally Posted by skstarkiller

Its back online. I talked to the owner so I know it was a hacking issue. They parked it to fix the problem.

Just trying to be helpful. It's a good idea to have a fallback page that just explains that the site is down instead of parking it. You can program a redirect at GoDaddy to go to a Google web page that you've made or even your twitter page -- or at least a blog. At least you won't look like you're out of business that way.

I haven't heard of a site being actually hacked in a while (not a linux-based site, away). I hope they share some details. DDOS attacks happen more often than actually breaking into a system. Time to upgrade (or install?) a firewall!

[cronos]

Originally Posted by Len Wilson

Hey guys thanks for the concern. We were hacked but not personally. We were caught by a hacker script using a known vulnerability but have closed the door and are in now in the process of changing the locks.

The GoDaddy issue was just an attempt to redirect the nameservers while the site was having trouble.

Ah -- that's a shame. That happened to me once about 10 years ago. It was just a script crawling the web looking for server holes.

I hope you don't mind my suggestions in the post above ^^^^. Some DNS services can actually detect when your server is down and redirect the name to a different IP address until it's back up. That way you have a backup page (or site).