Same here... Must have been another DDOS attack... after the first DDOS announcement it was fine...then again it went down...then the site came back again but the forum was inacessible... hmm... somebody's looking for the root cause... maybe its a forum user

That would be easy to find. Who has the most posts?

Suspects:

kcarlile 14582
pmbuko 14197
sirquack 11732
CV 8602
jakewash 8587

Hey, if you are listening there (ITIL V3 certified problem analyst / admin), try disabling these users if the issue occurs again

Those getting the 'Internal Server error 500, ethproxy' I expect are using Linux as I am. My bet is that some DDOS defense mechanism is denying Linux clients. If you use the Firefox agent switcher plugin and set it to Internet Explorer you can bypass this error.

I urge the site admins to give us an update. Site admins feel free to contact me for further assistance (www.watson-wilson.ca).

I have not had any problems since December 26th.

I assume your joking....

Sounds logical to me LOL

These glitches have effected my Linux, XP and Vista boxes with both IE and Fire Fox running on the XP machines. However, I’ve never had a problem with my Android phone which is using a Linux Kernel.

They’re witches, burn them!

Yes, the slowness and partial loads are effecting everyone, but the "internal server error" on the proxy page only seemed to a problem for certain OSes.

Neil, is right, the proxy server is examining the user agent and throwing an error for Linux/X11 clients. So it isn't a TCP issue (that's what I was thinking wrt the kernel), but more simple.

I'm posting this now from my Linux machine after I installed the user agent switcher. I'm not mimicking Internet Explorer, but wrote my own custom agent, "Mozilla/5.0 (U; en-US) Firefox/3.6", to still provide a little information, but not leak so much about my computer to every website I visit.