Unable to Access skyrim.nexusmods.com

[GreyDamage]

Judging by Google Trends, I'd guess it's a surge in activity. Searches like "skyrim mods" aren't classified as "rising" but "breakout", meaning they're rising and bloody fast too. Today is easily the peak for related terms over the past 7 days.

Actually, you're right - Steam saw massive, MASSIVE traffic this year for the summer sale. Just returning from another 5.5Million user logged in peak today, not even counting noname visits to the store page. Every year they prepare; every year it's the same story. It's enough to see even Steam's servers bite it with every shuffle of the daily sales/community choice. And Skyrim did go on sale, too. God knows Nexus' servers are going to be having enough trouble as it is keeping up with the flood of degenerates looking to install nude mods.

 

Come to think of it... new vegas went on daily yesterday for less than $5 with all the DLC, and he said the new vegas nexus was the one that was being DoSsed. From what I can see, the 'attack' also started yesterday. ...why the hell would someone DoS a single section of the nexus, and not the entire site? Doesn't make sense. Someone should probably remind him that a legit DoS looks very different to a bunch of different pages just being loaded. I've yet to see anyone successfully employ a tool such as wget to deny service without massive community support (Eric Bauman, anyone?). Perhaps employing a dedicated sysadmin would be a good move? If he doesn't already have one?

 

But hey, this is all just conjecture, and if he already knows all this crap and has identified it as a legit synflood, then I'll just stfu and go back to f5ing until these damn pages load so I can mod my Skyrim.

 

tl;dr holy s#*! I'm bored enough to type out a damn epistle

[galdran]

galdran: Your IP address probably changed. Unless you have a static IP address (which would be a rarity for residential ISP connections unless you specifically asked for it), your IP address will likely change after some time (that being whenever your router renews its DHCP lease).

 

That would explain why I was only down for a day, I think my router renews every 24hrs.

[falcont]

Hy this is falcont from England, I am having the same problems as you people, and have been for over 3 months now. and I am spending more time timeing out than anything else. it took me well over an hour

to do a download and that didn't include the download time that was just getting to the download page.

the worst of it is I have just paid out over £500 to upgrade my PC. And a further Monthly payout for

Fibre optick cable And I have not had any benifits from it yet yet. luckyily I held of from sending a subscrition. Shame realy because Nexus is the only site I realy use