Or the attack isn't sustained to the same seer and te load balancer just kept sending your home Linux machine to a server under attack. That is - you were unlucky. Next time clear cookies, get a new IP (modem reset) and hit reload in each browser Load bal server affinity (if there is any) is linked to ip addresses and sometimes cookie values. Sent from my iPhone - exucse teh tpyos, I'm all thmuba On 2013-08-28, at 6:33, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Mike Rosberg wrote: > >> Apparently, The New York Times website, Huffington Post UK's website >> and Twitter.com were all attacked by the Syrian Electronic Army >> yesterday >> http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/28/0233202/new-york-times-and-twitter-attacked-by-syrian-electronic- >> army > > well, the story gets stranger. i was having massive trouble using > twitter from home from my linux laptop, no matter what browser i was > using -- constant "Internal server error" diagnostics. but i pulled > out an old 32-bit dell laptop running windows and ... no problem. wtf? > > tested again from home this morning -- unusable from linux box, > works perfectly from windows laptop using IE. > > finally, got into the code factory where i work during the day ... > suddenly, access from linux just fine. so it *appears* to be something > happening at home, and possibly coincides with my getting a newer > rogers cable modem. the old one was flaking out, so i got a > replacement that comes with built-in wifi, but i'm still running a net > cable to my netgear wireless router to not mess with my setup. > > maybe it's some strange combination of the cable modem, going to the > wireless router. but it's only twitter that's affected -- every other > web site seems fine. and it's only a problem using a browser on my > linux laptop, as IE on windows doesn't seem to have any difficulty. > > i'm baffled. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux