Fire And Ice Grid @ManwaPastorelli

Fire and Ice Grid, real world location. Uk Offline

Full regions from £2/month. A personal touch on the metaverse.


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Fire And Ice will open logins to local users Friday at 19:00 BST (11:00PDT, 20:00 CEST), and hyper grid avatars will be enabled over the weekend.
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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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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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Hi yes, its accepting hypergrid visitors and I don't have identity checking. Anyone from any grid should be able to just use the URI in the map and tp.
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Question. Does anyone know in CoolVL and Singularity(nightly) use unmodified linden code for BOM? IF THEY DO people should avoid using them on older opensim code. It prior to 0.910
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Nice where can i get this
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it's in the opensimworld region
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Most of the issues with the last release of FS have been fixed in the repo if you can compile
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