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Xinashi is recovering from an attack on the grid that has resulted in missing assets and textures. You might find this is the case with some of the over 100 outfits at oh HELLO. You can help me fix the problems by reporting on the status of outfits you get at the shop. Each outfit vendor has an "oh HELLO Outfit Status Report" note card. All that is required is DELETING the sentence on the note card that does NOT apply:
* OK (All assets found and all textures present)
* NOT OK (Assets and/or textures missing)
Then drop the report note card into the mailbox next to the oh HELLO shop sign.
The outfits that are OK or have been repaired will have a "Quality Assured" label on the vendor. To get the fixed outfits, join the Xinashi group and I will send them to you. I'm also working on repairing the rest of the region, but my first priority is the shop. Thanks for your help.
* OK (All assets found and all textures present)
* NOT OK (Assets and/or textures missing)
Then drop the report note card into the mailbox next to the oh HELLO shop sign.
The outfits that are OK or have been repaired will have a "Quality Assured" label on the vendor. To get the fixed outfits, join the Xinashi group and I will send them to you. I'm also working on repairing the rest of the region, but my first priority is the shop. Thanks for your help.
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@Pagane,
Please ask if you want details.
Grids are attacked all the time, to clarify what I mean by all the time, F&I suffers multiple types of intrusion attempts every day. The server hosts DDOS attack messages come daily, typically multiple times per day.
Beyond that, there are more subtle attempts, usually exceeding 10k attempts per day. We do not have unnecessary ports open.
However in December due to a coding update mistake by myself, I left one of my own APIs open with only a password as protection rather than firewalled to my own servers. One of the brute force attacks above broke the password. That has since been fixed of course but the damage left behind has been awful. Mostly because when I restored, the region caches hid the extent of the damage. Resultingly after several months I couldn't go back and restore from a slightly earlier date.
The initial attack wiped all data under the user that runs opensim. Sadly they also ran my database backup script before wiping all the files. I didn't realise this back in December, and now its too late to try and restore an earlier backup.
The result is that I need to give residents time to clean their inventories and regions. Once they have had time, I will wipe the whole asset database, then restore it from OAR and IAR so the entire asset set is fresh.
Thank you nico for going to such lengths to help clean up the mess left behind.
Sara,
Fire and Ice Admin
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Please ask if you want details.
Grids are attacked all the time, to clarify what I mean by all the time, F&I suffers multiple types of intrusion attempts every day. The server hosts DDOS attack messages come daily, typically multiple times per day.
Beyond that, there are more subtle attempts, usually exceeding 10k attempts per day. We do not have unnecessary ports open.
However in December due to a coding update mistake by myself, I left one of my own APIs open with only a password as protection rather than firewalled to my own servers. One of the brute force attacks above broke the password. That has since been fixed of course but the damage left behind has been awful. Mostly because when I restored, the region caches hid the extent of the damage. Resultingly after several months I couldn't go back and restore from a slightly earlier date.
The initial attack wiped all data under the user that runs opensim. Sadly they also ran my database backup script before wiping all the files. I didn't realise this back in December, and now its too late to try and restore an earlier backup.
The result is that I need to give residents time to clean their inventories and regions. Once they have had time, I will wipe the whole asset database, then restore it from OAR and IAR so the entire asset set is fresh.
Thank you nico for going to such lengths to help clean up the mess left behind.
Sara,
Fire and Ice Admin
I was reluctant to put up this post, as I didn't want it to reflect badly on the grid. But Sara has done a great job of explaining what happened. Her honesty and hard work to fix the problem should give people confidence that Fire and Ice is a great grid.
I only wish more people knew about the great prices and service at Fire & Ice. For example, we pay by the prim allocation, not the size of the region. I have a 8X8 var-region, the largest available, at the same cost as for a single region. There are two classes of servers, and being poor, I use the lower cost option. However, people say they never experience server related problems at Xinachi. The cost is around US$6.
You might find similar deals elsewhere. But what I hear from other grid admins is that the servers on F&I are some of the fastest and reliable in OS, and that Sara is friendly, and above all, honest. I appreciate the kind comments about the shop and my region, but you should know I'm at F&I for a good reason. Sara is one of them.
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I only wish more people knew about the great prices and service at Fire & Ice. For example, we pay by the prim allocation, not the size of the region. I have a 8X8 var-region, the largest available, at the same cost as for a single region. There are two classes of servers, and being poor, I use the lower cost option. However, people say they never experience server related problems at Xinachi. The cost is around US$6.
You might find similar deals elsewhere. But what I hear from other grid admins is that the servers on F&I are some of the fastest and reliable in OS, and that Sara is friendly, and above all, honest. I appreciate the kind comments about the shop and my region, but you should know I'm at F&I for a good reason. Sara is one of them.
I'm glad you like the outfits. I hope I can get back to assembling new ones soon, but that will have to wait for now.
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Hello
between attacks and jumping grids, Opensim becomes anything! But what happened? because chance does not exist.
Good luck to all the owners.
Frankly it becomes really painful, really!
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between attacks and jumping grids, Opensim becomes anything! But what happened? because chance does not exist.
Good luck to all the owners.
Frankly it becomes really painful, really!
I rent my region, and only the grid owner can provide details about the attack. However, I understand that there are regular meetings of grid owners to discuss this and other topics. If you own your own grid, you might want to go to those meetings if you do not already. If you rent from a grid owner, you might want to ask them.
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Thanks so much for your comment. It may be that there is no fix for some outfits unless I come across the missing items on some other grid.
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