hamradio Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) Anyone being seeing this all morning? Edited January 19, 2016 by hamradio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Chi-coms. Or gremlins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 YES!! I wondered what the **** had happened!!!!!!! Edit: LawrenceA--What is a "chi-com"? Sorry for the stupid question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Yes, I got it too. On both my home computer and iPhone. Felt like an assault. I wondered if it was the Ted Cruz joke that I made in off-topic that got me suspended! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I found a thread about this on the Silver Screen Oasis boards, created back in October 2014. So I guess the same thing happened once before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 I feared a hacker got into the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Eh----not while I was mourning, but I saw it this MORNING! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 Eh----not while I was mourning, but I saw it this MORNING! Sepiatone Sorry about the typo, guess I was mourning TCM Message Boards prematurely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 My first thoughts were that perhaps the admin or someone in charge of this site's programming had finally attempted to rectify the ongoing spam issues we're experiencing, and so had had to suspend access to the forums section in these attempts. (...well, okay...this was actually my SECOND thought, 'cause I TOO at first thought I had maybe said somethin' recently which had offended the TCM gods) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Edit: LawrenceA--What is a "chi-com"? Sorry for the stupid question. Chi-com = Chinese communist. I used to hear it a lot in Red Menace type fearmongering dialogue and rightwing rhetoric. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Relax ... it was just Klaatu messing with us again. I don't think he likes the Iranian nuclear deal. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Anyone being seeing this all mourning? DNS poisoning. The nameservers out there temporarily redirected to the wrong computers (via the wrong IP address). Here is what a simple query of their domain name/IP address looks like now. I'll bet it would have been different earlier on today. Also I see a different file naming convention, as you can see in the address window. TCM uses ".php" extensions on their server, whereas this screen capture shows "cgi" file extensions and furthermore a "cgi-sys" page, which upon inspection, is likely to be a suspended Wordpress page. So not even the same kind of server software. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 DNS poisoning. The nameservers out there temporarily redirected to the wrong computers (via the wrong IP address). Here is what a simple query of their domain name/IP address looks like now. I'll bet it would have been different earlier on today. Also I see a different file naming convention, as you can see in the address window. TCM uses ".php" extensions on their server, whereas this screen capture shows "cgi" file extensions and furthermore a "cgi-sys" page, which upon inspection, is likely to be a suspended Wordpress page. So not even the same kind of server software. "I'm not a smart man." Your tech savvy both frightens and impresses me. I'm like a chimp banging at the keyboard with his knuckles. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 DNS poison, that's a technical jargon I've never heard of before. Thanks for the info. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 The last thing I remember was... Rich was telling some new guy how they could post a photo here and he revealed one of our deepest secrets about UR..[UMPH!! MMPPHHH! MPHHHHMPHHH!! MMM! MMM!] .. (sound of heels being dragged across linoleum floor and door slam reverberating in empty room). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 "I'm not a smart man." Your tech savvy both frightens and impresses me. I'm like a chimp banging at the keyboard with his knuckles. I like this - the global village idiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Since I couldn't sign into the Boards, I went to TCM's facebook page and told them off real good. I didn't know I had it in me. I used all y'all's names so they'd know I meant business. They'll think twice about messin' with you guys again. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlewis Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I found a thread about this on the Silver Screen Oasis boards, created back in October 2014. So I guess the same thing happened once before. I was so upset, thinking I did something wrong that caused it... THEN I googled online and stumble on that very same site. *whew!* Ha ha! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 DNS poison, that's a technical jargon I've never heard of before. Thanks for the info. Or someone somewhere might legitimately be reconfiguring a server. It is either misdirected from the outside, or from the inside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 It is my understanding that this forum is hosted by company other than TCM. It is different servers with different technicians from their main site. I remember that it was conclusion the last time that this happened that TCM had to wait for a few more people to buy DVDs before they had the money to renew the hosting contract. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 The service provider either kicked them out for Korean online casino spam or they missed a payment of $9.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I remember this happening once before. Probably doing some maintenance on website. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 It is my understanding that this forum is hosted by company other than TCM. It is different servers with different technicians from their main site. I remember that it was conclusion the last time that this happened that TCM had to wait for a few more people to buy DVDs before they had the money to renew the hosting contract. Yes. I did some more checking and that appears to be the case. An "internal" conflict. But not at TCM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydecker Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Pretty funny that at least half of the people on this thread (me included) assumed that it was something they had done to merit "account suspension!" Just call us paranoid. I was so hoping that the message boards being offline meant they were installing a more hack-proof system or getting a different company (with better security protocols) to manage the message boards. Sigh. No doubt that step will not happen until the sale of many, many more dvds and, of course, many subscriptions to the Wine Club Lydecker 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 It is my understanding that this forum is hosted by company other than TCM. It is different servers with different technicians from their main site. I remember that it was conclusion the last time that this happened that TCM had to wait for a few more people to buy DVDs before they had the money to renew the hosting contract. ...or more wine from Francis Ford Coppola, PERHAPS??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now