DDoS attack against LiveJournal...

Well, here’s at least one sourceclaiming that the DDOS was the Russian government.

And I note, with extreme annoyance, that LiveJournal is down again, and not just for me.

Yeah, I was right in the middle of a post and it went ‘boom.’

They’re back up.

I’d love to know what “Varnish Error 503 Service Unavailable” means. Or rather, I can parse all of it except “Varnish”.

In one of its early incarnations the main LiveJournal page was a layout I designed. I had just offered to help Brad out because the site was so cool but its layout was lacking. He took me up on my offer and for about six months the site was designed by me.

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](Varnish (software) - Wikipedia)

So, they use Varnish, and that’s the bit the error message is originating from.

Is it satin or semi-gloss?

I use to have a LJ account but deleted it along with my Facebook and other accounts over a year ago.

wow, now you guys have me looking at my old LJ stuff. lol