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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on June 06, 2010, 08:11:34 PM

Title: FR is still down?
Post by: The Village Idiot on June 06, 2010, 08:11:34 PM

wow.

This is annoying. It froze the other day for an hour or so and now it looks totally gone. whoa.

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: poser on June 06, 2010, 08:15:22 PM

Yup. It's down. The Free Republic II yahoo group seems to have been hacked as well. It was no longer on my list and says I'm banned.

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: thundley4 on June 06, 2010, 08:15:52 PM

I get a blank page, not even an error message.

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: The Village Idiot on June 06, 2010, 08:36:22 PM

Quote from: poser on June 06, 2010, 08:15:22 PM

Yup. It's down. The Free Republic II yahoo group seems to have been hacked as well. It was no longer on my list and says I'm banned.

The Yahoo Group was canceled after it was getting spammed badly

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: NHSparky on June 06, 2010, 08:46:43 PM

Someone running a DoS on it?

And I'd say welcome, poser, but you've been here longer than me!

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: The Village Idiot on June 06, 2010, 08:50:14 PM

lol.

Welcome poser.

Free Dominion has a couple of FReepers who have posted about it:

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1499913#1499913

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: poser on June 06, 2010, 11:33:49 PM

Quote from: NHSparky on June 06, 2010, 08:46:43 PM

Someone running a DoS on it?

And I'd say welcome, poser, but you've been here longer than me!

The counter was reset at some point. I drop by and read once in a while, particularly when FR is down.

Title: Re: FR is still down?
Post by: The Village Idiot on June 07, 2010, 12:43:31 AM

This also seems to be an active back-up site:

http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/portal.php